Recently, on December 3, a few activists gathered in Tokyo to show support for and silently highlight the suffering of the Uyghur people of Xinjiang in China. The activists also paid homage to more than two dozen Uyghurs, who were killed in an apartment block fire in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi, according to several media reports.
Washington [US], February 19 (ANI): China sentenced an Uyghur educator and principal of a high school in Korla (Kuerle in Chinese) in northwestern China's Xinjiang region to 18 years in prison for inviting two Uyghur scholars to give presentations.
Washington [US], September 1 (ANI): A Uyghur woman, Kalbinur Gheni who met a US official in December to discuss the imprisonment of her sister Renagul Gheni by Chinese authorities in the Xinjiang region is being subjected to harassment along with her relatives.