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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
HONG KONG — Since I was 16 years old, I have wanted to be a pastor. I was raised in a Christian family in Hong Kong that urged me to live by biblical principles.
Deutsche Politiker hatten sich bei Besuchen in Peking von Jiang Tianyong über die Menschenrechtslage in China aufklären lassen, jetzt droht dem prominenten Anwalt eine Haftstrafe. Er gab in seinem Prozess ein fragwürdiges Geständnis ab.
A prominent human rights lawyer who has been imprisoned since July 2015 was recently released and remains under close surveillance at home, ChinaAid learned recently.
On August 17, 2017, an appeal by the Chinese-controlled Hong Kong prosecution officially imprisoned three young student leaders, Alex Chow, Nathan Law and Joshua Wong, for their leadership in the 2014 umbrella movement.
