Uyghur Academy Foundation, East Turkistan Research Foundation and World Uyghur Congress Foundation jointly organized a Martyrs Commemoration Meeting and Press Statement in Ankara on the 27th anniversary of the February 5, 1997 Gulca Massacre. The Uyghur Academy Foundation, together with the East Turkistan Research Foundation and the World Uyghur Congress Foundation, organized a "Commemoration Meeting for th ...

China is quietly developing and rebuilding the Lop Nur base for nuclear testing in East Turkistan. Satellite images firstly published by the New York Times (NYT) show that China is trying to reactivate the facility where it can conduct full-fledged nuclear weapons tests or subcritical nuclear explosions. This is a development that could have a high impact on regional security. Lop Nur is a desert region in ...

  United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres should press Chinese President Xi Jinping to end Chinese authorities’ crimes against humanity in East Turkistan and other serious rights abuses in China during his upcoming visit, Human Rights Watch said today. Guterres is attending the third Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on October 17 and 18, 2023, to mark the 10th anniversary of China’s global infr ...

FILE - Tourists pose for photos with a camel outside the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, as seen during a government organized trip for foreign journalists, on April 19, 2021. WASHINGTON — Despite evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, major international travel companies are continuing to offer tours to the northwestern Chinese region, a ...

A Uyghur man in July sits on a park bench with political propaganda in the background in Kashgar city in northwestern China’s Xinjiang (Uyghur Region) region. Report saays optics of western firms organizing Xinjiang (Uyghur Region) tours amid ‘crimes against humanity are disastrous’ By Helen Davidson / The Guardian Uyghur advocates have called on western tourism companies to stop selling package holidays th ...