News about Xinjiang

"The 2023 report by UHRP gathered insights from 11 Uyghur asylum seekers based in Türkiye, Pakistan, and India, all of whom shared the feeling that UNHCR was “inaccessible, unresponsive, and even irrelevant to them”." - @newhumanitarian www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2024/05/02/un-declined-offers-assist-uyghur-asylum-seekers-detained-thailand

An estimated 1 in 26 #Uyghurs have been jailed, accounting for a third of China’s prison population. "The actual situation in #Xinjiang may even be worse, said UHRP senior researcher Ben Carrdus, who wrote the report." -@RadioFreeAsia www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/imprisonment-rate-report-05022024144951.html

🗞️ The WUC's Weekly Brief is out! www.uyghurcongress.org/en/weekly-brief-3-may/ Read about: ➡️WUC Celebrates 20th Anniversary ➡️WUC Calls on Thailand to Release Uyghur Refugees After 10 Years in Detention ➡️Chinese Espionage in Europe Considered Larger Problem pic.twitter.com/4N94MduSyJ

Today, we've launched the WUC's 20th anniversary with the release of the study "The Uyghur Genocide from the Survivor's Perspective: The System of Internment Camps, Transnational Repression, and Their Toll on Mental Health" pic.twitter.com/9PMSWejD9P