On United Nations International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, we should not forget the agony of silence for exiled Uyghurs waiting for news of loved ones at home.
Ruth Ingram
The Story of Zuhre Sultan, Uyghur Exile: “The CCP Took Away My Entire Family”
29 of her relatives are detained, disappeared, dead, or still serving lengthy prison sentences. She tells her—and their—story to “Bitter Winter.”
Uyghurs in China: The Most Heavily Jailed Group in the World
One third of China’s total prison inmates are Uyghurs and Turkic people.
Another Human Rights Problem in Kazakhstan: Domestic Abuse
Domestic abuse in Kazakhstan must stop, demands a new generation of students, dismayed by entrenched attitudes in their culture.
Mehmutjan Memet: A Uyghur Is Dying in Jail, His Family’s Pleas Are Ignored
Wife and children wait for news of a husband and father critically ill in a Chinese prison. His mother and other relatives are in jail too.
Uyghur Stories: How Yalkun Uluyol Lost His Father—and Thirty Family Members
The insatiable pain of loss for a Uyghur exile, trying to come to terms with separation from those he loves.
Uyghurs Bravely Resist Oppression Through Poetry
As human rights atrocities envelop the globe, pleas not to forget the Uyghurs rang out from exiled poet Aziz Isa Elkun on UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, March 21st.
The CCP’s War Against Religious Uyghur Women
New revelations shine a spotlight on the treatment of Uyghur Muslim women, detained for nothing more than practicing their faith.
China Uses Hi-Tech to Suppress Dissent in the Uyghur Region
Mass surveillance still continues apace in Xinjiang and is being rolled out incrementally across the rest of China
Why Uyghurs Keep Commemorating the Ghulja Massacre of 1997
Every year on February 5 they remind the world that what happened then was the beginning of a genocide that still continues.
Ruth Ingram
Ruth Ingram is a researcher who has written extensively for the Central Asia-Caucasus publication, Institute of War and Peace Reporting, the Guardian Weekly newspaper, The Diplomat, and other publications.