A mural artist who champions the oppressed has painted a portrait of a former Uyghur survivor of an internment camp on a building in France’s second-largest city to raise awareness of the plight of the persecuted Muslim minority group in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region
Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced due to conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Many have fled to refugee camps in neighbouring Sudan, traumatised by the continuous horrors
A Uyghur who spent eight years in state custody during two separate prison terms on different charges in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region was detained a third time in September, according to a source with knowledge of the situation and police in his hometown
Human rights activists and others around the world are outraged that three years after Washington Post columnist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the US has failed to sanction Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is accused of ordering the killing
After four months of controversy over the seating of Tibet’s exile parliament, all members of the parliament’s 17th session will now take their oaths of office under the terms of Tibet’s exile charter, following the intervention of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama
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
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko wants to deepen his ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to ease his government’s international isolation, which has resulted from a harsh crackdown on political opponents
With Koranic recitations and the raising of the blue and white crescent moon and star East Turkestan flag, Uyghurs in Canada opened a mosque and community center on the outskirts of Toronto in a renovated 150-year-old Roman Catholic Church to serve a community of 2,000 members of the Turkic ethnic group
Award Winning Documentary Film Makers Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi’s new documentary, 20 Years in Afghanistan, is their most recent work