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The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) urges Chinese government authorities to release two young Uyghur students detained in East Turkestan (also known as Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)) in relation to the organization of a peaceful protest.
In this submission, the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur American Association provides information under the general guidelines for the preperation of information.
The 2008 Olympics held in Beijing helped bring into the limelight the plight of ethnic minorities in China, subject to ‘gross human rights violations’, according to Amnesty International.
In the first official statistics on China’s security crackdown last year in advance of the Beijing Olympics, a report published Sunday in an official newspaper said that more than 1,100 people had been indicted in the western region of Xinjiang on suspicion of “endangering state security” in the first 11 months of last year.
Despite previous reports that Australia was offering to take some Guantanamo Bay detainees, the government says it has refused two U.S. resettlement requests.
Terrorist work must be condemned and brought to justice from all regions of the world. Yet, race and all people of Islam should not be considered as terrorists, that is, all religions have waged war in the old days and now; do we still hold the people of today, at fault for their ancestors fault? We do not.
From a devastating earthquake to the Beijing Olympics, China witnessed a tumultuous year of triumph and tragedy in 2008 that sorely tested the Communist Party's ability to manage.
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) urges Chinese government authorities to release two young Uyghur students detained in East Turkestan (also known as Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)) in relation to the organization of a peaceful protest.