China’s draft law raises concerns that it masks assimilation as unity, targeting religious and ethnic minorities. Human Rights Watch @humanrightswatch warns that such claims have previously justified repression of language rights and the persecution of Tibetans and Uyghurs.
📖https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/28/china-draft-ethnic-unity-law-tightens-ideological-control
#minorityrights #minority #china #chinese #tibet #uyghur #language #languagepolicy #press #academia #politics #democracy
China's draft Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress will further erode the rights of minority ethnic groups
“The draft law on ethnic unity is a blatant effort by the Chinese government to control people’s thoughts and expression about China both inside and outside the country” - Maya Wang, HRW
Xinjiang as It Really Is
An on-the-ground account challenging Western propaganda Upon landing in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (commonly known as Xinjiang), it is evident that the Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, call this home. As I e...Kut (mythology)
According to the Turkic belief kut/qut meaning ‘blessing’ or ‘fortune,’ is a kind of force vitalizing the body.
Through kut, humans are connected with the Heavens. Also the sacred ruler is believed to be endowed with much more kut than other people. Thus the Heaven would’ve appointed him as the legitimate ruler.
The Turkic khagans claimed that they were “heaven-like, heaven conceived” & possessed kut. This was a sign of the Mandate of Heaven to rule.
Rulers of the Qocho were entitled idiqut ‘sacred good fortune’ in Old Uyghur. It also existed in Mongols as suu. It was believed that if the ruler had lost their qut, they could be dethroned & killed. This had to be done without shredding his/their blood. This was done usually by strangling with a silk cord. This custom (of strangling) continued among the Ottomans.
The Ottomans also continued this tradition by re-expressing the “ruler’s heavenly mandate” (kut) into Irano-Islamic terms with titles like “shadow of God on earth” (zill Allah fi’l-alem) & “caliph of the face of the earth (halife-i ru-yi zemin).
Kutlug is a frequently used & well-known personal Uyghur name. It was also the name of first rulers of the Second Turkic Khaganate Ilterish Qaghan, & the Uyghur Khaganate, Kutlug I Bilge Kagan.
One-Time Monthly YearlyMake a one-time donation
Make a monthly donation
Make a yearly donation
Choose an amount
$1.00 $5.00 $10.00 $1.00 $5.00 $10.00 $5.00 $10.00 $15.00Or enter a custom amount
$Your contribution is appreciated.
Your contribution is appreciated.
Your contribution is appreciated.
DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearly
#HalifeIRuYiZemin #Heaven #Idiqut #IlterishQaghan #IranoIslamic #Kut #Kutleg #KutlugIBilgeKagan #Mongols #OldUyghur #Ottomans #Qocho #Qut #SacredRuler #SecondTurkicKhaganate #Suu #Turkey #Turkic #Uyghur #UyghurKhaganate #ZillAllahFiLAlem
Critically, American #surveillance #technologies allowed a brutal mass #detention campaign in the far west region of #Xinjiang — targeting, tracking & grading virtually the entire native #Uyghur population to forcibly assimilate & subdue them.
#US #tech companies did this by bringing “#PredictivePolicing” to #China — #technology that sucks in & analyzes data to prevent crime, protests, or terror attacks before they happen.
#HumanRights #government #DigitalPoliceState #InternationalLaw #law
Preparation for the Next Life https://trailers.zouluvo.com/preparation-for-the-next-life/
#SebiyeBehtiyar #FredHechinger #AlicherAdill #DrallaAierken #EstherChen #BingLiu #5septembre2025 #ÉtatsUnis #2025 #septembre2025 #drama #romance #AmazonMGMStudios #OrionPictures #PlanB #Pastel #FindingLeoProductions #Uyghur #immigrant #NewYorkCity #Chinatown #undergroundkitchens #AmericanSoldier #love #hope #struggle #survival #militaryfather #culture #connection #destiny #journey
In these troubled times we live in, many members of our group are involved with #activism for multiple causes. However, we still make the time to come together and #protest each month outside the #Chinese #embassy in #WashingtonDC, calling for an end to the Chinese government's #genocide of its #Uyghur population.
The Australian Uyghur Tangritagh Women’s Association (AUTWA) is taking legal action against retailer Kmart over concerns about the use of forced labour in its supply chain
The case highlights problems in Australia's Modern Slavery Act. The act requires companies to report on their supply chains but imposes no penalty if they fail to report
Preventing Transnational Repression - the case of the Uyghur diaspora
This report looks at the Chinese party-state’s repression of the Uyghur and Kazakh diasporas. it gives advice about how CSOs can mitigate or prevent TNR
Minority Rights
David on Formosa
The USA Potato
Spirituality & Religious Studies
Nonilex
Stephane N
Uyghur Crisis Response Team
Richard Michael Blaber