For years, at least 400 people in Burkina Faso, including some kids under the age of 16, have been awaiting trial on terrorism charges
Turkey has been one of the most hospitable countries to Uyghurs, with whom Turks share ethnic, religious, and linguistic connections. Turkey’s government has offered Uyghurs a safe place to live outside northwestern China’s Xinjiang region. About 50,000 Uyghurs are believed to live in Turkey — the largest Uyghur diaspora outside Central Asia
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the killing of almost 34,000 Jews by German forces in the Babi Yar ravine outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on September 29-30, 1941, during World War II. In Los Angeles, there is a memorial to the victims, where many people gather to light candles in their honor
Guantánamo Bay Naval Base military prison opened on January 11, 2002, to detain suspected terrorists caught in the US-led global “War on Terror.” The naval installation, which is located in Cuba, was chosen as the location for the military prison
British Afghan women have gone on hunger strike in Afghanistan to protest the Taliban’s treatment of women
The retired parents of a Uyghur activist living in Australia have been in state custody since mid-2018
Louise Xin is a Chinese-Swedish fashion designer who launched her eponymous Stockholm-based brand in November 2020 as Scandinavia’s first rental-only couture label
A Uyghur woman who met with a U.S. official in December to discuss the imprisonment of her sister by authorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region has been pressured to stop speaking out about her siblings, while her relatives have been subjected to frequent questioning by police in their hometown
The Uyghur diaspora has held its first democratic election, selecting delegates to attend the 7th World Uyghur Congress (WUC) General Assembly in November, where the exile group will choose a new president and other key committee members
Khieu Samphan,the only surviving Khmer Rouge leader, filed his final argument in his appeal against his genocide conviction this week, as the long-running UN-backed tribunal wrapped up its final public hearings