Ayjaz Wani, 10 April, 2020 China has sent thousands of Uyghurs to its manufacturing powerhouses at Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangzi and Zhejiang to keep its factories after the lockdown. In a controversial decision the UN has appointed China to its Human Rights Council panel, where the communist nation with scant record for human rights will play a key role in selection of the UN’s investigators to monitor global ci ...

By GT staff reporters Recently, US lawmakers and an Australian think tank have been sparing no effort on hyping up the so-called forced labor conspiracy in Northwest China’s Uyghur Autonomous Region Uygur Autonomous Region and pushing for a bill to limit US imports from Uyghur Autonomous Region. To refute these rumors, the Global Times visited more than 70 companies and private workshops in four prefectures ...

Introduction In the middle of the 8th century, Uyghurs, a Turkic speaking nomadic tribe, established their Empire, the East Uyghur Kaganate (ca. 744–840), in Mongolia. After the demise of this Kaganate, most of them moved into the eastern part of the Tianshan (天山) area, where they founded a new kingdom, the West Uyghur Kingdom (second half 9th c.–13th c.). This kingdom continued to exist even after the rise ...

To discuss the opportunities that the international situation would bring to East Turkestan and the possibilities we had, a round table meeting on the opportunities and possibilities that would be available in East Turkisan Case was held in partnership with Uyghur Radio - Television and European Branch of  Uyghur Academy on Saturday 29 February 2020 in the Hague, the Netherlands. Uygur Academy Executive Dir ...

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) talks to reporters following a classified national security briefing of the U.S. Senate on developments with Iran after attacks by Iran on U.S. forces in Iraq, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 8, 2020. REUTERS / Tom Brenner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio said on Monday he was bringing Rushan Abbas, an advocate for the ri ...