What is happening with the Uighurs in China? At least 1 million Uighurs have been interned since 2017 in more than 85 identified camps within Xinjiang-- an autonomous region in Northwest China, according to Western reports. Most of the ... 02/20/2021 - 6:25 am | View Link
Will other nations join US in accusing China of ‘genocide’ against Uighurs? Uighurs: how China began a ‘cultural genocide’ as the West looked on What was in the leaked files on China’s detention of Uighur Muslims? ICC rules out investigation into China’s forced ... 01/19/2021 - 11:00 am | View Link
China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment Over the past few years, credible estimates suggest, more than one million Uighurs and other minorities have been forced into a network of highly secure camps in Xinjiang that China has insisted ... 08/3/2020 - 12:59 pm | View Link
Xinjiang: US sanctions on Chinese officials over 'abuse' of Muslims China is accused of mass detentions, religious persecution and forced sterilisation of Uighurs and others. The sanctions target the US-connected financial interests of regional Communist Party boss ... 07/8/2020 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Persecution of Uyghurs in China In 2008, Michael Clarke, an Australian terrorism scholar, noted that "there has emerged within the Uighur émigré community a tendency to portray the Uighurs as experiencing a form of 'cultural genocide '", citing as an example a 2004 speech by World Uyghur Congress president Erkin Alptekin. [303] 11/29/2024 - 12:34 pm | View Website
Uyghur | History, Language, China, & Muslims | Britannica Central Asian arts: Uighurs However, other scholars argue that modern Uyghurs are, in large part, the descendants of one or more nomadic groups that lived in Xinjiang much earlier than the Uyghur khanate. 11/29/2024 - 12:13 pm | View Website
China: Unrelenting Crimes Against Humanity Targeting Uyghurs Chinese President Xi Jinping’s pronouncement that China intends to maintain its counterterrorism policies in the northwestern Xinjiang region indicates continuing crimes against humanity there. 11/29/2024 - 8:10 am | View Website
Uyghurs The Uighurs are the people whom old Russian travelers called "Sart" (a name they used for sedentary, Turkish-speaking Central Asians in general), while Western travelers called them Turki, in recognition of their language. The Chinese used to call them "Ch'an-t'ou" ('Turbaned Heads') but this term has been dropped, being considered derogatory ... 11/29/2024 - 7:27 am | View Website
Who The Uyghurs Are And Why China Is Targeting Them : NPR MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Uyghurs are a Muslim minority in China, living in Xinjiang province at a crossroads of culture and empire. Today it's estimated that more than 1 million Uyghur people ... 11/28/2024 - 10:08 pm | View Website
A Missouri judge has permanently struck down four provisions of the state’s sweeping voter suppression law, House Bill 1878, that criminalized civic engagement activities like voter registration and the distribution of absentee ballot applications. Another win for democracy! Via Democracy Docket:
In a 75-page ruling issued Wednesday, Missouri Judge Jon E.
Pro-LGBTQ+ voices panned an Ohio bill signed by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine Wednesday that will bar transgender students in public and private Ohio schools from using "multi-occupancy facility"—bathrooms, as well as locker rooms, changing room, or shower rooms—that match their gender identity.
"We made it clear to Gov. DeWine and Ohio legislators that S.
Democratic lawmakers on Monday urged U. S. President Joe Biden to ensure that his administration's "historic work to undo the damage of federal marijuana policy" would not end with the steps already taken over the past three years, calling on the president to "deprioritize" marijuana prosecutions before his term ends in January.
Led by Rep.
In just one day, without even becoming president yet, RePresident-elect Donald Trump solved the immigration crisis.
All it took was a single phone call, in which Trump uttered unknown but obviously magic words that Pres. Joe Biden refused to say for four years, presumably because he stutters or because Democrats import immigrants to vote illegally.
The nomination of Marco Rubio to the Secretary of State position opens up his senate seat, so there's lots of speculation about whom DeSantis would pick and how involved Trumpy Bear will be in the process. Via NBC News:
Roughly two weeks after the Rubio announcement, however, DeSantis’ team is still working through its options and does not plan to show its hand for at least a month, according to five people familiar with the process.