Month: October 2022

He Needed a Job. China Gave Him One: Locking Up His Fellow Muslims.

NYT:He Needed a Job. China Gave Him One: Locking Up His Fellow Muslims.NYT:He Needed a Job. China Gave Him One: Locking Up His Fellow Muslims.

Read the full article’ “Tahir Imin, a Uighur activist in Washington, said four relatives of his worked as police officers in Xinjiang only because there were few good jobs for Uighurs. “There are big problems between Uighur police and ordinary people,” he said. “People hate them and consider them as

Chinese authorities order video denials by Uyghurs of abuses

AP(2021):Chinese authorities order video denials by Uyghurs of abusesAP(2021):Chinese authorities order video denials by Uyghurs of abuses

Read the full article “Tahir Imin, a Uyghur activist who fled China in 2017, said the videos are almost certainly state-orchestrated and coerced, given that information in Xinjiang is heavily censored. “People don’t know who Pompeo is or what he’s saying,” Imin said. “How would they know what Mike Pompeo

'This is real': Holocaust survivor shares story on Clubhouse to help combat hate

Tahir and Holocaust survivor at same platform: From NBCnewsTahir and Holocaust survivor at same platform: From NBCnews

Read the full news ‘This is real’: Holocaust survivor shares story on Clubhouse to help combat hate “Also joining Steigmann in one of his rooms was Tahir Imin Uighurian, a political science scholar and Uyghur activist who has said he was jailed by the Chinese government for political reasons and whose family

Star Scholar Disappears as Crackdown Engulfs Western China

NYT:Star Scholar Disappears as Crackdown Engulfs Western ChinaNYT:Star Scholar Disappears as Crackdown Engulfs Western China

Read The Full Article  ” “The Chinese government, after arresting Uighur government officials, Uighur rich people, they’ve begun to arrest Uighur intellectuals,” Tahir Imin, a former student of Professor Dawut, said from Washington, where he lives. “Right now I can tell you more than 20 names, all prominent Uighur intellectuals.”

As genocide designation becomes a political football, Uyghur activists push for action

Religion News:As genocide designation becomes a political football, Uyghur activists push for actionReligion News:As genocide designation becomes a political football, Uyghur activists push for action

Read the full article; “What’s not clear is just how Biden plans to pressure Beijing. “The Biden administration has maintained the genocide designation and the (Trump administration’s) sanctions on products produced by Uyghur forced labor,” says Tahir Imin, a Uyghur activist, “but we haven’t seen concrete new steps to address

Pakistan criticises China over treatment of ethnic Muslims
Ilham Tohti

Aljazeera:Jailed Uighur economist Ilham Tohti receives Sakharov PrizeAljazeera:Jailed Uighur economist Ilham Tohti receives Sakharov Prize

Read the full article: “Uighur activist Tahir Imin, part of the Uighur National Network, and who has family members currently held in Xinjiang, told Al Jazeera that Tohti is still a role model for Uighurs around the world. “His spirit of humanism and love for his nation and sacrifice always

Tahir Imin, Uighur activist, the US

Aljazeera: Technology: Ushering in world peace or an existential crisis?Aljazeera: Technology: Ushering in world peace or an existential crisis?

US-based Uighur activist Tahir Imin pointed out how a lack of regulation has led to breaches of privacy and technology being used for mass surveillance. Imin said that advanced tech companies, including US ones, helped China harvest data that was used for the surveillance and arrest of Uighurs. “It’s a

WAPO:After years of silence, Turkey rebukes China for mass detention of Muslim Uighurs

WAPO:After years of silence, Turkey rebukes China for mass detention of Muslim UighursWAPO:After years of silence, Turkey rebukes China for mass detention of Muslim Uighurs

Uighur activists applauded Turkey for speaking out, but many questions why it is only now coming to their defense. Tahir Imin, a Washington-based activist, said he and others provided documentation of China’s incarceration of Uighurs to the Turkish government for more than a year without a response. “We hope the

Uyghur activism

Alaraby(2021):’Free physically but spirit still imprisoned’: How survivor’s guilt has become a Uighur exile’s constant companionAlaraby(2021):’Free physically but spirit still imprisoned’: How survivor’s guilt has become a Uighur exile’s constant companion

Read the full article; “I just woke up from a nightmare. I went back to Urumqi. I was surrounded by Chinese police at my arrival. They took me to a dark place. I heard horrible noises. I thought of quick dying without being forced to speak against my people.” Uighur