Tag: women in the news
Uyghur woman serving 20-year sentence for speaking to Turkish PM 10 years ago
23rd March 2022
A Uyghur woman who spoke for an hour with a Turkish politician a decade ago during his visit to a famous bazaar in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region was arrested for her transgression in 2017 and ...
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‘Their Supposed Crime is Promoting Terrorist Activity’: Member of Jailed Uyghur Family
19th June 2020
When Nursimangul Abdureshid and her older sister Nurimangul left their native Kasghar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), to study in Turkey in 2013 and 2014, they expected that ...
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