Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo weighs in on China and the US airstrike in Syria on 'The Ingraham Angle'. Zheng was banned from the UK parliament just days later. His father was the imam, and his grandfather was the mosques secretary. Before: Mr Justice Dove. Story tips and ideas can be sent to Paul.Best@fox.com and on Twitter: @KincaidBest. } Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, an international organization that promotes Uyghur rights and opposes China's "occupation" of the Xinjiang region, said the new disclosures show . More at IMDbPro Contact Info: View agent, publicist, legal on IMDbPro. Under this strategy, the United States, Britain and their allies, latching on to the Cold War mentality, have directed their . Hoja is clearly trusted, and feted, at the highest levels of the US state apparatus. 25 Nov 2016. Alptekin is the son of Isa Alptekin, who opposed both East Turkistan Republic(s) and sought autonomy for the Uyghurs under the Republic of China. Yes. Schillingstrae 12 BBC? Fair Trials, an organization working "for fair trials according to internationally recognized standards of justice" has noted that in practice, "INTERPOL's Red Notices are being used as political tools by NCBs, and are being issued and maintained on the basis of criminal cases which have been recognized as being politically-motivated by extradition courts and asylum authorities. In an open letter to International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach, the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC) accused China of "committing genocide, crimes against humanity and torture . With your donation we can: continue our , & advocacy campaigns provide capacity building for #Uyghurs in the diaspora promote human rights, democracy & religious freedom Donate here . 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Hikvision developed similar capabilities to detect Uyghurs and minorities and was awarded government contracts to implement vast facial recognition systems in re-education camps and at the entrance of at least 967 mosques, according to an Ipvm report. { Held in conjunction with the meeting was a conference on the Uyghur conflict entitled: East Turkestan: 60 Years under Communist Chinese Rule, that took place on 18 and 19 May, prior to the Assembly. The World Uyghur Congress strives to promote democracy, human rights and freedom for the Uyghur people through peaceful, nonviolent, and democratic means in order to determine their political future. The World Uyghur Congress won 2019 Democracy Award. The main objective of WUC is to promote the right of the Uyghur people to use peaceful, nonviolent, and democratic means to determine the political future of East Turkistan. The president formally requested Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, a British barrister, to establish and chair the tribunal. [17] According to the WUC, its main aim is to "promote the right of the Uyghur people to use peaceful, nonviolent, and democratic means to determine the political future of East Turkestan." They asked whether it could be done. It said the governments position made the UK an international outlier and a safe haven for importers of goods produced as a result of crimes against humanity, and genocide. No evidence is provided. There he attended Catholic school and then Convent College,[28] completing his studies in the Institute of Journalism in Istanbul. The same machine that made Muhammad feel detention and arrest was inescapable is now equipped with tools such as facial recognition. Other countries have followed suit, with Canada and the Dutch parliament passing motions last month that label the treatment of Uyghurs a genocide. Last modified on Fri 20 Jan 2023 10.50 EST. I took the time to read through just one article the BBC posted, out of thousands, Here: bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51520622 based on the so-called testimony of witnesses and Adrian Zenz.I lost count of the number of appears to bes, allegedlys, may well have been.. Said to haves.. Thought to have beens.. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said last week that a"final decision" on how to handle the 2022 Olympics has not been made, and that they are looking to the U.S. Olympic Committee for guidance. Market data provided by Factset. They lied about Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Hong Kong, and theyre lying about XinJiang. Abdusalam Muhammad recalls local police interrogating him and his family in their home of Yakan in Chinas Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region as early as 1995. Local and state entities in the US also continue to purchase equipment manufactured by some of these companies. "Real people are suffering from these crimes every day and the Olympics and the sponsors risk being forever tainted with the intense suffering of my people.". window.mc4wp = window.mc4wp || { Global Times. The WUC was established on 16 April 2004 in Munich, Germany, after the East Turkistan National Congress and the World Uyghur Youth Congress merged into one united organisation. (function() { ; born 4 July 1939) is a Uyghur activist from Germany.Alptekin is the son of Isa Alptekin, who claimed that during 1933-1934, he was the General Secretary of the First East Turkestan Republic in Western China when in reality he was a representative from Xinjiang in the KMT government. They lie. Superb thread From @RyanMcManimie: Utter and total #debunk of the lies and propaganda spewed out by #MehdiHasan @mehdirhasanhttp://Haaretz.com David Stavrou and @haaretzcom on the fraud #SayragulSautbay who, in actual fact does a great job of totally debunking herself. Nothing else. [39], The government of the People's Republic of China has accused the World Uyghur Congress of fomenting unrest in Xinjiang, and added the WUC to its list of terrorist organizations in December 2003. 80336 Munich, Germany, Berlin Office: Alibabas cloud services provider, the largest in China, lists Is [the face] Uyghur? as an attribute it can detect and filed a patent for ethnicity detection in 2016, according to a 2020 Ipvm report. East Turkistan has effectively been occupied by China since 1949. Legal Statement. [14] It has labeled the WUC's president as a "terrorist" who "conspired with separatists and religious extremists to plan terror attacks. In the past, Washingtons focus has been on the Dalai Lama and allegations of Chinese oppression of the Tibetan population. Market data provided by Factset. } The Assembly brought together over 140 WUC delegates from 18 countries to elect new representation, amend the charter of the organization and to discuss a forward-looking strategic advocacy plan over the next four years. On the last day of Trump's presidency, his administration declared China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims a "genocide.". He was put under house arrest, warned not to talk about his experience in the camps and a camera was installed in his home, he said. The exhibition was originally organized by the Uyghur American Association and the One Voice, One Step initiative and has been presented in 33 cities in 15 countries. A Uyghur democracy movement leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, was reelected WUC President. It is just three months since former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, during his final day in office, branded Chinas actions against the Muslim Uyghur minority in western Xinjiang as genocide. I said, Ill see what I can find.. Its ALL Propaganda.The BBC pay for Lies For Money. Dec 21, 2022. During the week beginning on Monday, 18 May officially designated by the WUC as "Uyghur Week" WUC delegates, Uyghur human right activists, government officials, legislators and academics attended these two important events. [3][4] The Congress is funded in part by the National Endowment for Democracy or NED of the United States. The main . These miniscule numbers are then somehow magically extrapolated into figures amounting to hundreds of thousands, and thence ballooned to one million.. (and Ive seen even more outrageous numbers bandied around.) In a December 2017 draft policy, for example, Chinas ministry of public security listed ethnicity recognition: (Uyghur/Non-Uyghur) as one of the requirements of facial recognition systems that the government implements, Healy wrote. East Turkistan Education and Solidarity Association, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, government of the People's Republic of China, Ethnic Clashes In China Continue As White House Calls For Restraint, "China Smears Former Xinjiang Residents Who Testified About Abuses in the Region", "U.S.-backed World Uygur Congress, spokesperson for terrorism", "Changing the Guard at the World Uyghur Congress", Newly founded World Uyghur Congress calls for peaceful solution in East Turkestan. I was not allowed to go out.. [26], Dolkun Isa is a former student-leader of the pro-democracy demonstrations at Xinjiang University in 1988. There are an estimated 20 million Uyghurs living in East Turkistan and abroad, though Chinese sources put the number at 11.65 million. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Atakabi, Touraj; Mehendale, Sanjyot. . None of the basic questions are asked let alone answered. In Modesto, the local school district confirmed in February it used federal funding to purchase cameras for contact tracing for about $257,000. Tel: +49 89 5432 1999 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, "Accountability starts now." In addition to prohibiting US firms from exporting technology to the companies, the US government with the designation signaled loudly that the companies were complicit in Chinas mass detention of Uyghurs. Confronting Terrorism and Other Evils in China: All Quiet on the Western Front? [14] There are no known links between the WUC and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. Actually, no. A Uyghur human rights organisation, the World Uyghur Congress . } The surveillance machine has grown with the aid of Chinese and international technology companies. Reminder: BBC commission Adrian Zenz who is happy to concoct twaddle. The following is a transcript of an interview with Reps. Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi that aired on "Face the Nation," on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. I said no, too hard, too little evidence They asked again. Muhammad was among dozens of survivors of Chinese detention and re-education camps who spoke at the first and second round of hearings of the non-governmental tribunal, which was organized by a group of lawyers, professors and advocacy groups such as the World Uyghur Congress, to bring attention to the treatment of Uyghurs in China. The WUC also participates actively with the UN Human Rights Council and submits written statements and reports, delivers oral statements to plenary sessions, and organizes side events that focus on Chinese human rights abuses. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Workers walk by the perimeter fence of what is officially known as a vocational skills education center in Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region in China on 4 September 2018. It has declared its intention to work with world governments and form a "peaceful opposition" to the policies of the Chinese government in Xinjiang,[9] whose treatment of Uyghurs, it alleges, risk turning the region into a "time bomb". Headquarters: [33], On 13 July 2016, the World Uyghur Congress, under the cosponsorship of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and the Uyghur Association of France (Association des Oughours de France) successfully completed its 5th General Assembly in Paris, France. Balfour House, 741 High Road London N12 0BP, United Kingdom. The US has accused China of committing genocide and crimes against humanity for running a mass detention, repression and sterilization campaign against Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities. Inside the cell, here was a camera, there was a camera, on all sides and angles there were cameras, he said. Asia In the US, legislation came into effect last year assuming that any product partly or wholly made in Xinjiang, north-west China, is linked to the regions labour camps. The NED quickly developed a notoriety of its own for funding right-wing, pro-US outfits around the world and for engineering the so-called colour revolutions in the former Soviet republics. . Chosen as an International Woman of Courage on 4 March 2020 by the US Secretary of State guess thatd be the bloated twerp Pompeo then, The BBC commissioned my research. 21stCenturyWire: The source of lies about XinJiang US NED NGOs Where did the story come from? The government has also alleged that Kadeer has close ties with the Dalai Lama, accused by China of inciting unrest in Tibet in 2008, and claimed that WUC president Kadeer said that "something similar should happen in Xinjiang."[40][41]. from-idlib-to-xinjiang-uyghur-fighters-trained-for-terror/, xinjiang-and-uyghurs-what-youre-not-being-told/, bestchinainfo.com/guest-posts/jerrygrey-xinjiang/, From CGTN: UK-radio-presenter-spreads-disinformation, How I too was fooled by western propaganda, also this: western-aggression toward China, and this: if I could be fooled, so could millions of others. implement vast facial recognition systems. Established in 1998, the Uyghur American Association (UAA) is the D.C.-based affiliate of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), which claims to be "the sole legitimate organization of the Uyghur . That was enough to raise red flags for local authorities charged by the Chinese government with monitoring religious activity of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, according to testimony Muhammad gave at a tribunal convened in London earlier this month. Administrative Appeals Chamber (Upper Tribunal)CivilHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionJudgment, Neutral Citation Number: [2023] EWHC 88 (Admin)Case No: CO/2931/2021, In the High Court of JusticeKings Bench DivisionAdministrative Court, Between:The King on the Application of World Uyghur Congress-v-Secretary Of State For The Home DepartmentCommissioners for His Majestys Revenue and Customs Service National Crime Agency. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. London, England, United Kingdom. Madam High Commissioner, We, the undersigned human rights organisations, write to follow up on your commitment last year to release a report on grave ongoing human rights violations . World Uyghur Congress -v- HMRC 759.15 kb. At a press conference leading up to the tribunal, Chinas ambassador to the UK, Zheng Zeguang, called it a farce and said allegations of genocide were absurd. The hue and cry about Uyghur genocide is aimed at stampeding public opinion behind the Biden administrations escalating confrontation with China and its military build-up for war. 10179 Berlin, Germany, Brussels Office: Title Komisi Pemilihan Umum (KPU) Provinsi Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta Summary The Yogyakarta Election Provincial Commission is a part of the General Election Commission (KPU) which has the authority to conduct the election of President/Vice President, Election of Members of the DPR/DPRA/DPRK, and Election of Regional Heads and Deputy Regional Heads (Pilkada) in Yogyakarta. These US government-run news agencies were created by the CIA during the Cold War to project propaganda about China . At this assembly, Erkin Alptekin was elected as the first president and Memet Tohti as the vice-president. Those wishing to travel abroad, would have to seek permission from local authorities, and who refuse could be barred from leaving the country. In recent months Western media and the Washington Administration have begun to raise a hue and cry over alleged mass internment camps in Chinas northwestern Xinjiang where supposedly up to one million ethnic Uyghur Chinese are being detained and submitted to various forms of re-education. Several things about the charges are notable, not the least that all originate from Western media or democracy NGOs such as Human Rights Watch whose record for veracity leaves something to be desired . } twitter.com/Abdurra1377722. China's "War on Terror" in Xinjiang: Human Security and the Causes of Violent Uighur Separatism. A thoroughly pliant and corrupt American and international media immediately fell into line with sensational stories of Serbian atrocities. [11] The East Turkistan National Congress split in early 2004 over the issue of independence vs autonomy. It is as if an orchestral conductor tapped his baton, and all the instruments have sounded in turn. During the Assembly, Uyghur delegates also elected a new WUC leadership. Protesters hold Tibetan flags during a protest against Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics by activists of the Tibetan Youth Association in Europe, in front of the International Olympic Committee, IOC, headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (function() { The area of the historical city centre proposed to be inscribed in the World Heritage List is 1260 hectares. The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) filed a complaint with the Olympic committee's ethics commission on August 2020 requesting the organization reconsider holding the 2022 Olympics in China due to . The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) commemorates the 26th anniversary of the Ghulja Massacre, during which Chinese security forces arrested, wounded, and killed thousands of peaceful Uyghur protesters. The event allowed members of the Uyghur community from around the world to share in their common culture and heritage as the WUC looks to protect Uyghur identity going forward. His research is widely quoted, including in official US documents, he has given testimony in the US Congress, and is associated with right-wing Republicans and Uyghur exiles. "The @UyghurCongress and @hrw held a press conference at the @MunSecConf on China and the threat it represents to the security. Commissioners for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs Service. Washington had previously branded the KLA as a terrorist organisation due to its ties with Al Qaeda, but rapidly reversed course, provided money and arms, and declared it to be the sole legitimate representative of Kosovos population. The head of the religious affairs of our village noticed me and reported everything to the police, a translation of his statement submitted to the tribunal read. Speaking in the Senate of the Italian Republic during a press conference to present Dolkun Isa's book The Chinese Freedom Trap, which was organized in collaboration with the "Marco Pannella" Global Committee for the Rule of Law, Senator Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata emphasized the significance of Isa's presence in Rome.He noted that the Uyghur leader had been prevented from entering the . The company said it was dismayed when it learned an ethnicity detection feature was being tested and that it was eliminated from the product offering and would not be used in the future. When they were finally released, the cameras followed them, they said. [8] The Congress has convened seven assemblies since its inceptionin 2004, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2021. Rebiya Kadeer (born 15 November 1946) is an ethnic Uyghur, businesswoman and political activist. [5] It has been designated as a terrorist organization by China since 2003 for conspiring with separatists and religious extremists to plan terror attacks.[6][7]. [32], From 14 to 17 May 2012, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) successfully held its 4th General Assembly in Tokyo, Japan, attended by more than 120 Uyghur delegates from 20 countries around the world. 107 were here. The data used (by Zenz) is totally based on interviews with just eight (8) people. Apr 2020 - Present2 years 10 months. They also held a peaceful protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo with the participation of Japanese supporters. (2008). Lawyers and representatives from the World Uyghur Congress and members of the Uyghur community in the UK standing outside the high court in London last October. (2005). [17] During the July 2009 rmqi riots, the Chinese government said it had intercepted phone calls of overseas Turkestan groups and groups inside the country. 28 Apr 2016. [18] The first president, Erkin Alptekin, described the Han Chinese as "colonists who want to replace us with their own people and assimilate those of us who remain, wiping out our culture. The camp, Nur said, was covered in cameras. Under decades of repressive rule, the existence of the Uyghur nation is under threat as the Chinese government continues to carry out deliberate policies opposing centuries-old tradition, culture & religion. Japanese and international media covered the protest. He added that there may be other tools or resources available to the government and law enforcement agencies or evidence that could be provided to them which could provide an effective basis for tackling the concerns in respect of cotton production in the XUAR and the exploitation and abuse of the Uyghur people with which it has been associated.

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