She told Bitter Winter and the world she was in grave danger of being arrested. She was right.
Ruth Ingram
Poetry Against Mass Atrocities: Poets Compare Notes on Jewish, Uyghur, and Other Genocides
Holocaust Memorial Week stirred flames of remembrance in the pens of exiled poets, displaced through their religion or politics.
Zhanargul Zhumatai: “Help Me, I Just Want to Leave China”
The ethnic Kazakh dissident tells Bitter Winter she continues to be embroiled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the authorities as she waits under virtual house arrest in Urumqi.
Zhanargul Zhumatai: A Dramatic Interview with an Ethnic Kazakh Camp Survivor Who May Soon “Disappear”
Bitter Winter interviewed the 43-year-old artist in Urumqi, where the police is threatening to take her to a psychiatric hospital.
UK, the World Cup of Human Rights: Lords 1, Government and China 0
The campaign to prioritize human rights over expediency is pushing forward in the UK with a Lords victory over the government.
Uyghur Women Forced to Marry Han Chinese Men
Propaganda, incentives, and sheer coercion and blackmail have made the once rare interethnic marriages a daily occurrence.
China: Fire in Urumqi, Protests Everywhere—What Is Really Happening
A tragic fire in Urumqi has been the catalyst for mass protests in China and demands for the government to step down
UK: China Accused of a Wide Range of Abuses in the House of Lords
China’s human rights record comes under the spotlight again as peers debate the atrocities.
No Room for Denial: Timothy Grose Documents Atrocities in Xinjiang from CCP’s Own Sources
Official denials fly in the face of social media proof to the contrary from the Communist Party faithful.
Thailand Mistreats Refugees from China
Pressure is mounting to release Uyghur asylum seekers from horrific conditions in Thailand. Southern Mongolian and Christian refugees from China also face problems.
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.