(Yueyang, Hunan—Sept. 7, 2017) The wife of a pro-democracy activist released a statement revealing that her husband’s trial would take place on Sept. 11, the first word she’s had of his condition since he disappeared 172 days ago.
Beijing Should End Campaign to Weaken Vital Rights Mechanisms
A number of reports this month further indicate that Chinese authorities in are increasingly targeting the Kazakh minority in East Turkestan. The Kazakhs are Turkic people and predominately Muslim, like the Uyghurs, who also constitute a sizable ethnic group in China, with between 1.25-1.5 million reportedly living in East Turkestan.
The World Uyghur Congress issued a Press Release this week expressing its strong concern after the unjust sentencing of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow. The result leaves no doubt that Hong Kong authorities have chosen to side with injustice and the silencing of peaceful dissent since the rise of the umbrella movement in 2014.
The World Uyghur Congress issued a press release after it emerged that Chinese authorities in the Hotan prefecture had decided to completely ban the Uyghur language at all education levels up to and including secondary school at the start of the fall semester in September 2017.
To mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance on 30 August 2017, the WUC issued a press release remembering the hundreds of Uyghurs who have disappeared and joined other rights groups in calling on the Chinese government to immediately cease this barbaric practice and to pursue justice for the victims and their families.
Ein Augenzeuge konnte bestätigen, daß die chinesischen Behörden mit der Demolierung von Unterkünften in dem seit 1985 bestehenden buddhistischen Institut Yachen Gar unvermindert fortfahren.
On the United Nations International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances (August 30), UHRP calls on the Chinese government to come clean about Uyghurs missing after the 2009 unrest in Urumchi and to reveal the whereabouts of Uyghur students forcibly returned from Egypt.
Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders – August 28, 2017
