Significantly, even as the Washington Post holds up Hoja as proof of Chinas genocide and oppression of the Uyghurs, it is forced to acknowledge that Chinese officials earlier this month released a video of her mother and brother showing they were free, not detained. Contribute to IMDb. [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. 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. Secretary Of State For The Home Department. Still, many of those companies have seen little to no consequences for their contribution, even as they have been flagged by the US government for aiding in a humanitarian crisis. Human rights violations remain pervasive including persecution on cultural and religious grounds, arbitrary arrests and the silencing of peaceful dissent. The Congress was formed in mid-April 2004 at a meeting in Munich, Germany, as a collection of various exiled Uyghur groups, advocating for "greater autonomy," including the World Uyghur Youth Congress (WUYC) and some members of the East Turkestan National Congress (ETNC) following a split among the East Turkestan National Congress over the issue of autonomy vs independence. On 3 June 2021, Joe Biden also issued an executive order prohibiting US investments in 59 Chinese companies including Hikvision and Huawei for facilitating repression or serious human rights abuses. 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. Local and state entities in the US also continue to purchase equipment manufactured by some of these companies. Adolf-Kolping-Strae 9 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. More at IMDbPro Contact Info: View agent, publicist, legal on IMDbPro. 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. On the last day of Trump's presidency, his administration declared China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims a "genocide.". The Post, however, does not miss a beat, dismissing the video as propaganda, and declaring that no one can doubt the hell in which Uyghurs suffer in the Xinjiang detention campsciting as proof another lurid account by a Kazak exile in the New Yorker . (function() { It paves the way for, as World Uyghur Congress president Dolkun Isa put it, "meaningful and tangible action by member states, UN bodies, and the business community Accountability starts now . China denies that any human rights abuses are taking place in its Xinjiang province, saying that its policies are in place to combat radicalism. Remembering the 1988 demonstration that changed the course of the Uyghur rights . Long-time Uyghur activist and co-founder of the WUC, Dolkun Isa, was elected as WUC President and former vice-president, Omer Kanat was elected as Chairman of the Executive Committee. . A camera is mounted on a watchtower at a high-security facility in Xinjiang, China, believed to be a re-education camp where Uyghurs are detained. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) took those limitations further and banned the use of federal funds to buy products from Huawei, Dahua or Hikvision. 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.. 1000 Brussels, Belgium, London Office: The World Uyghur Congress accused the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of ignoring an ethics complaint it filed last year to move the 2022 Winter Games out of Beijing due to China's alleged . The only camera-free place was where the toilet was., Nur was released in 2018, but he did not escape the watchful eye of the government. Ditto the economy. RFA was set up and funded in the 1950s by the CIA to beam American propaganda throughout Asia. })(); Munich office: Today, Uyghurs practice a moderate form of Islam and lead predominantly secular lives. The first hearing took place on Tuesday after non-profit Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) NGO filed a lawsuit against the British government. 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. Ms. Kadeer's election has given new hope and strength for WUC and the Uyghur people all around the world. His campaign team issued a statement in August 2020, concluding that the unsubstantiated claims of mass internment of Uyghurs constituted genocidea designation subsequently confirmed by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. 10179 Berlin, Germany, Brussels Office: [37], On 18 October 2019, an exhibition named "A Prison Without Walls East Turkestan Today", was opened, featuring photographs of reeducation camps, the everyday lives of Uighurs, and the July 2009 Urumqi riots opened at Taipei's 228 Memorial Museum. The World Uyghur Congress accused theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) of ignoring an ethics complaint it filed last year to move the 2022 Winter Games out of Beijing due to China's alleged human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims and other minorities. Its ALL Propaganda.The BBC pay for Lies For Money. Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo weighs in on China and the US airstrike in Syria on 'The Ingraham Angle'. Reuters in their article boosts its claim by citing a murky Washington DC based NGO, the Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD). What is Radio Free Asia? National Crime Agency. The NATO war on Serbia was part of the efforts of US imperialism and its allies to take advantage of the break-up of Yugoslavia along ethnic and religious lines. Other companies that reportedly developed Uyghur detection features have largely evaded scrutiny. 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. } 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. The Clinton administration justified its humanitarian intervention as a mission to prevent the massacre of Kosovos ethnic Albanian population by the new HitlerSerbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. The switch to the Uyghurs has nothing to do with concern for their democratic rights, but rather is determined by the strategic position of Xinjiangadjacent to Central Asia and its energy supplies and essential to Chinas Belt and Road Initiative linking the Eurasian landmass with roads, rail, pipelines and telecommunications. Prominent Uyghur political leader and human rights activist Ms. Rebiya Kadeer was unanimously elected as the new President of World Uyghur Congress. All rights reserved. Adrian Zenz. No one, however, should give any credence to US claims to be concerned about the democratic rights of the Uyghurs, or anyone else for that matter. It was set up at the request of the World Uyghur Congress, an international organisation of exiled Uighurs. Uyghurs (or Uighurs, Uygurs) are ethnically and culturally a Turkic people living in the areas of Central Asia commonly known as East Turkistan. The sole person making the charge, American committee member Gay McDougall, stated she was deeply concerned about credible reports.. Watch David Norths remarks commemorating 25 years of the World Socialist Web Site and donate today. World Uyghur Congress President Dolkun Isa (center) and top WUC leaders at a news conference following the announcement of his reelection in Prague on November 14. Paul Best is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. As in 1999, the media has fallen into line. 28 October 2022. Dolkun Isa is a former student-leader of the pro-democracy demonstrations at Xinjiang University in 1988, as per World Uyghur Congress website. The WUC's platform combines the three previously discussed approaches (retributive justice, economic sanctions, and restorative justice), channeling their efforts into international governance . Nothing is substantiated. They asked whether it could be done. 10179 Berlin, Germany, Brussels Office: But few have faced repercussions. . In July 2018, Huawei filed for a patent on the ability to detect whether someone was Han or Uyghur, according to security research group Ipvm. Our legal team has worked hard on this, and together we will continue to hold the Chinese government accountable.. Support the. Copyright World Uyghur Congress 2022 - All rights reserved. Philip Agee, the late CIA whistleblower, described the work of the NED as a more sophisticated version of the old-fashioned covert operations that Langley used to engineer. [11] The East Turkistan National Congress split in early 2004 over the issue of independence vs autonomy. The feature is routinely specified in tenders for public surveillance projects, he wrote. At this assembly, Erkin Alptekin was elected as the first president and Memet Tohti as the vice-president. 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 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]. on: function(evt, cb) { They also held a peaceful protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo with the participation of Japanese supporters. A commentary published on Monday in the Washington Post entitled China is intensifying the third phase of its genocide denial exposes the lack of substance to the US allegations. The main . This doesnt even qualify as reasonable supposition. Chinas Uyghurs living in a dystopian hellscape, says Amnesty report, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Only 8 people. -v-. After both districts were approached by reporters earlier this year, the source of the funding was changed. These US government-run news agencies were created by the CIA during the Cold War to project propaganda about China . The World Uyghur Congress, a group of Uighur exiles advocating for human rights in their homeland, puts their number at about 20 million living inside and outside of China. WUC claimed UK unlawfully failed or refused to investigate cotton imports from Xinjiang. Huawei did not respond to a request for comment . event : evt, Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. [21] Some newspapers in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan reprint articles from the websites in Uyghur and Russian.[22]. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! BBC? The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) is an international organisation that represents the collective interest of the Uyghur people both in East Turkistan and abroad. Not so clever. 80336 Munich, Germany, Berlin Office: 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. Legal Statement. "Despite the Chinese government's strenuous denials, the UN has now officially recognised that horrific . nor does it matter to their paymasters as long as their nefarious agenda is given plausibility, Winner of US Women of Courage Award wanted for loan fraud. [36], The WUC engages in a wide range of awareness raising and advocacy campaigns about the human rights situation for Uyghurs in China, concentrating on United States Congress in Washington, EU member states, and EU and UN human rights mechanisms. In addition, the delegates recognized the unparalleled contributions of former president and long time Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer with an honorary role with the organization. The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) is an international organisation that represents the collective interest of the Uyghur people both in East Turkistan and abroad. I said no, too hard, too little evidence They asked again. Story tips and ideas can be sent to Paul.Best@fox.com and on Twitter: @KincaidBest. If the IOC allows China to host the 2022 Winter Games, it is willfully and intentionally abandoning the values and principles that underpin the Olympic Movement. (And various and sundry other propaganda outlets such as Radio Free Asia very well documented as a CIA agitprop operation) These are the primary 'sources' of much of the (dis) . The Congress is funded in part by the National Endowment for Democracy or NED . } Zheng was banned from the UK parliament just days later. Rahima Mahmut, who has been in the UK since 2000, is the UK director of World Uyghur Congress, an organisation promoting Uyghur human rights. Fax: +49 89 5434 9789 [24], Its President, Dolkun Isa was on the Red Notice List of the International Criminal Police Organization, though the German government did not recognize the notice, nor did the United States. 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. After enduring persecution from the Chinese government, Isa fled China in 1994 and sought asylum in Europe, and became a citizen of Germany in 2006. There are an estimated 20 million Uyghurs living in East Turkistan and abroad, though Chinese sources put the . When they were finally released, the cameras followed them, they said. The surveillance system propped up by these often global companies serves to facilitate that genocide, argues Dolkun Isaa, president of the World Uyghur Congress advocacy group. Surveillance cameras are seen near the headquarters of Chinese video surveillance firm Hikvision in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. The World Uyghur Congress is an umbrella organization with affiliate groups in over 20 countries. 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. In November 2019, she was given the Magnitsky Human Rights Award for her reporting on the human rights crisis in Xinjiang and has been included in Jordans list of the worlds 500 most influential Muslims. He founded the Students' Science and Culture Union at the university in 1987 and worked on programs to eliminate illiteracy and to promote science and to lead other students in East Turkestan. By representing as the sole legitimate organization of the Uyghur people both in East Turkistan and abroad, WUC endeavours to set out a course for the peaceful settlement of the East Turkistan Question through dialogue and negotiation. This trial technology was not deployed by any customer, said Brion Tingler, AliBabas head of external affairs in the US, in a statement. WUC delegates from the United States, Canada, the Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan attended this assembly. Today, Uyghurs practice a moderate form of Islam and lead predominantly secular lives. [20], The Congress, like the Uyghur American Association based in Washington, D.C., use mass media and their own websites in an aim to inform the international community of human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The goal of these surveillance tactics is not only to instill fear in Uyghurs minds that every aspect of their behavior is monitored, but most importantly to single out Uyghurs for detention in the internment camp system, Isaa said. Various testimonies from non-Chinese world reveal that Beijing has in fact intensified its operations by putting more people in internment camps. Posted by World Uyghur Congress on Friday, July 13, 2018 Many leading members of the WUC have also worked in senior positions for Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). The World Uyghur Congress claims to be a nonviolent and peaceful movement that opposes what it considers to be the Chinese "occupation" of 'East Turkestan' and advocates rejection of totalitarianism, religious intolerance and terrorism as an instrument of policy. World-Uyghur-Congress-v-HMRC-judgment-200123.pdf, History of the judiciary in England and Wales, Judiciary and Data Protection: privacy notice, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber, Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber, Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber, War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber, Administrative Appeals Chamber (Upper Tribunal). During the four-day assembly, delegates in six commissions discussed new strategies for the peaceful promotion of human rights and democracy for the Uyghur people, in light of China's current political conditions and its upcoming change of political leadership later this year. Defending the case, the government argued that the claimant had only provided evidence of a chance that a crime had been committed, without any of the necessary details to warrant a criminal investigation. In August Reuters published an article under the headline, UN says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps.A closer look at the article reveals NO UN policy statement, but a quote from one American member of an independent committee that does not speak for the UN, a member with no background in China. Probably the most important institution pushing an anti-China outlook Canada's military offers a unique window into US influence. (2008). Uyghurs (or Uighurs, Uygurs) are ethnically and culturally a Turkic people living in the areas of Central Asia commonly known as East Turkistan. He provided no evidence for the accusation and made no attempt to justify the use of the term genocide which implies a deliberate policy of extermination applied to Uyghurs. Buildings in Chinas north-western Xinjiang region are believed to be a re-education camp for Uyghurs. ; 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. In the first of two days of hearings at the High Court in London, Mr Tom Forster KC, for the World Uyghur Congress and the Global Legal Action Network, said the case was "not remotely hypothetical . As for Muhammad, he said he prayed five times a day, was a non-smoker and a well-behaved man. Who is Gulchehra Hoja? East Turkistan neighbors nine countries Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Tibet & China. Rue de Trves 49 No evidence is provided. SenseTimes not included in Bidens executive order addressing the threat posed by the military-industrial complex of China, permitting US entities and funds to invest in the soon-to-be-public company. 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. From Germany, he has helped found many Uyghur nationalist organizations, the best known of which are the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and the World Uyghur Congress. . Help Uyghur. Would be good to investigate this more closely. (Link to Russian report in the thread). IndraStra Global is a "Strategic Information Services Company", primarily focused on data-driven academic research which includes assessment and interpretation, based on "O.O.D.A." 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