Tahir in Media
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
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
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.”
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
Read the full articel ““The fate of Nur Bekri is a signal for all Uighurs that no matter how loyal you are to the Chinese communist party, you are the same enemy to them,” said Tahir Imin, an Uighur academic and activist based in the US.”
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
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
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
Read the full article “Tahir Imin, a founding member of online news site the Uighur Times, was one of the activists who helped lobby the State Department to help Yusuf. Imin fled to the US in 2017 after the Chinese authorities threatened to extradite him to China from Israel. He
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