Ahmetjan Juma s brother, Mamatjan, suggested that Ahmetjan is being punished simply because he, his brother, works at Radio Free Asia (RFA) as Deputy Director of the Uyghur Service.
The Chinese government has blocked international organizations and journalists from going to the region to conduct an independent investigation. My parents told me not to contact my brothers; that if I have anything to say to them or other relatives, just to tell my mother and she will pass the message along to them. Mamatjan Juma, brother of Ahmetjan Juma, high school principal and a literary translator, sentenced to 14 years in prison after being held for two years of training in China s internment camps; interview with Gatestone.
Posted: Jun 29, 2021 10:27 PM ET | Last Updated: June 30
A masked demonstrator attends a protest denouncing China s treatment of Uyghur Muslims in front of the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, on July 5, 2018. Canadian senators on Tuesday voted down a motion to label China s treatment of the Uyghurs as a genocide.(Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images)
Senators declined to label China s treatment of its Muslim minority Uyghur population as a genocide Tuesday evening.
A motion brought forward by Sen. Leo Housakos called on the Senate to recognize that a genocide is currently being carried out against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims.
Twenty-nine senators voted in favour of the motion, 33 senators voted against and 13 abstained.
Raif Badawi: 9 years in a Saudi prison
Despite international pressure and efforts to secure his release, this week marks the ninth anniversary of the Saudi dissident s arrest.
Raif Badawi s wife has been integral to efforts to try to free him
Things are not going well for Raif Badawi. The Saudi Arabian writer has been in prison in the Gulf state since June 2012, when he was arrested for what he wrote on a website that he founded called Free Saudi Liberals.
Badawi was charged with insulting Islam by promoting secularism on his blog. In 2014, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, a $266,000 fine and 1,000 lashes. Despite a number of international campaigns to try and secure an earlier release, he may well remain in jail in Saudi Arabia until late February 2022. This would be the date of his release according to the Islamic calendar that was used to sentence him.
Arrested in 2012, Saudi Writer Raif Badawi Continues to Languish in Prison thewire.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thewire.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Xinjiang: Waterloo of US human right diplomacy By Li Jiming | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-06-07 09:09 Inheritors of Daolang Muqam intangible cultural heritage hold musical performance in Makit county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Sept 15, 2019. [Photo by Shang Changping/For China Daily]
Believe it or not, history will prove that the current human rights diplomacy of the US government is meet its Waterloo, as evidenced by its lack of due attention to some of the real issues, and weird obsession with lies which can only be supported by other lies of its politicians. Its contradicting positions on the Palestine issue and on the Xinjiang issue may just be the two sides of the same coin.