Category Archives: Uighur

Present-Day Ethnic Problems in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region: Overview and Recommendations (3) – Religion

By Ilham Tohti, translated by Cindy Carter, published: April 26, 2015

Continued from I. Unemployment and II. Bilingual Education

III. Religion

Overview

Since the July 2009 ethnic unrest in Xinjiang, religious fervor within China’s Uighur community has been rising steadily. Whether in traditional villages in southern Xinjiang, Continue reading

Present-Day Ethnic Problems in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region: Overview and Recommendations (2) – Bilingual Education

By Ilham Tohti, translated by Cindy Carter, published: April 23, 2015

Continued from I. Unemployment

II. Bilingual Education

Overview

Besides unemployment, the issue that provokes the most intense reaction within Xinjiang’s Uighur community is the issue of bilingual education. In practice, “bilingual education” in Xinjiang has essentially become “monolingual education” (i.e. Mandarin-only education.) Continue reading

Present-Day Ethnic Problems in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region: Overview and Recommendations (1) – Unemployment

By Ilham Tohti, translated by Cindy Carter, published: April 22, 2015

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ILHAM TOHTI WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON ON SEPARATISM CHARGES ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2014.

This article, a total of 24,000 words in Chinese, was first posted on the Daxiong Gonghui (“大象公会”) website after the Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti’s arrest in January, 2014. Continue reading

Chinese Court Frees Uyghur Linguist Following Appeal

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Chinese authorities have freed a U.S.-educated Uyghur linguist who sought Continue reading

China Sentences Uighur Scholar’s Tohti Students to Up to 8 Years

By Joshua Fellman Dec 8, 2014 3:12 PM ET

China sentenced seven students of incarcerated scholar Ilham Tohti, a member of the country’s Uighur minority, to three to eight years in prison for separatism, Hong Kong government broadcaster RTHK said. Continue reading

Humanitarian China: A public appeal for humanitarian donation for Ilham Tohti

We are extremely shocked to learn that a moderate and rational Uighur academic, Ilham Tohti, had been sentenced to life imprisonment and confiscation of all personal property on September 23 on charges of “separatism”. We strongly protest such political persecution.

As a response to the urge of netizens, we launch a donation campaign for Ilham Tohti and ask for public support. Continue reading

An Internet Where Nobody Says Anything-Ilham Tohti’s Sentence Shows Dark Vision for the Web of the Future

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Chinese police impose tight security, sealing off the road leading to the Urumqi Intermediate People’s court, as the trial of Ilham Tohti begins, in Urumqi, September 17, 2014.

Here is what a court in Urumqi, the capital of China’s western Xinjiang region, concludes Ilham Tohti, a balding, thick-set, Continue reading

3 Chinese Students, Missing for Months, Surface to Denounce Uighur Scholar

By EDWARD WONGSEPT. 26, 2014

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Relatives have said students of Ilham Tohti are being held. Credit Andy Wong/Associated Press

URUMQI, China — The three students Continue reading