Events themed around the Uyghur Genocide Resistance have begun in Washington. During the meeting, experts and activists discussed ongoing human rights violations in East Turkistan and called for stronger international solidarity. The large-scale program was launched on December 9, 2025, under the leadership of the Uyghur Academy and the Uyghur Movement, in cooperation with the Australian Uyghur Association, ...

Testifying at a US congressional hearing, Dr. Rishat Abbas, Tibetan and Mongolian activists, warning that China is escalating its campaign to erase the cultural identity and reshape the history of the Uyghurs and other ethnic groups, with these efforts now reaching American soil. Activists testified at a US congressional hearing on November 5, 2024, warning that China’s government is intensifying its campai ...

Perhat Tursun’s “The Backstreets” has been wowing critics with its literary merit and its account of the hardships faced by Uyghurs in China. By Eve Glasberg, October 27, 2022 Perhat Tursun, author of "The Backstreets, is a leading Uyghur writer, poet, and social critic. He is seen here before he was detained by the Chinese authorities in 2018, and reportedly given a 16-year prison sentence. Serendipity has ...

By Nick Statt@nickstatt  Feb 26, 2020, 12:30pm EST   Google Translate is adding support for five new languages today, bringing its total to 108 languages. The move marks the first addition of new languages to Google’s artificial intelligence-powered translation product in four years, the company says. Among the new languages added are Kinyarwanda, Odia, Tatar, Turkmen, and Uyghur, and Google says the c ...

  Introduction   The remains of Old Uyghur Buddhist scriptures of varying content, as well as records and documents of Buddhist communities and monasteries which are preserved in numerous Central Asian collections worldwide, clearly demonstrate the widespread and fairly long-lasting Buddhist orientation of the Uyghurs and their affiliation to different Buddhist schools or varieties of Buddhism.1 I ...