Yalkun Uluyol
@YalkunUluyol
China Researcher @hrw; Ph.D. in International Relations, Koç Uni; @ (sometimes known as Yakup)
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RFA reported Rahile Omer’s death in prison. She was 14 when authorities put her in a camp in 2017 & sentenced her to 12 years when she reached 18. Her photo was leaked in a police file.
It’s cruel, unjust, and inhumane. Beijing should be held to account.
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Most professional fellowships aren’t built for people who risk their freedom to do their work.
HRF’s Freedom Fellowship is. Up to 15 human rights advocates, social entrepreneurs, and nonprofit leaders — people like Zilala Mamat, a 22-year-old Uyghur advocate separated from her family since 2016 — get a year of hands-on mentorship across movement building, leadership, digital security, media, fundraising, and nonviolent strategy, powered by our partnership with CANVAS and its founder Srđa Popović.
A community of activists who amplify each other’s work around the world — and carry each other through it. Learn more about the Freedom Fellowship →
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@hrw is seeking a Researcher/Advocate on the Koreas. The Researcher/Advocate will investigate human rights abuses in North Korea & advocate for an end to these abuses. They will also work to elevate human rights in South Korean foreign policy. Seoul-based
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Xinjiang's revised language regulation no longer mentions "Uyghur" and drastically departs from earlier versions. It's part of government's consolidation of Han-centric Chinese identity and erasure of Uyghur language & culture in the region. @UyghurMonitor
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Macao’s prominent democracy activist Au Kam San has been sentenced to 12.5 years in jail in the city’s first national security case.
The case was marred by violations of due process and fair trial rights, including a closed trial and restrictions on his choice of lawyer.
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Beijing says this is a re-education center
Cruel, devastating, and unjust.
The National Security Law in Hong Kong has been used to punish peaceful protest and expression.
Following the sentencing of Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong on baseless national security charges, HRW's @PearsonElaine speaks with Al Jazeera ⤵️
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.@MFA_China told @WSJ that it's not familiar with my father Memet Yaqup's case and that China has "rule of law." The "rule of law" that locked up an innocent father to a camp since 2018, sentenced him to 16 years & failed to provide any info to his family?
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It was 2015—my father’s Istanbul visit.
We sat at a cafe near Suleymaniye. I don't remember what we talked about, but for the first time, I felt I was an adult in his eyes. I am not sure if we will have another occasion of this kind.
I lost contact with him in June 2018.
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Joshua Wong has been robbed of his youth by an insecure regime, forcing him to serve time twice for the same “offences”.
Meanwhile the UK, who, with China promised to uphold Hong Kong’s autonomy, will allow Joshua to pay the price for their failure. “Very concerned”.
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A country that imprisons its youth leaders buries its future.
HK authorities sentenced Joshua Wong to another decade in prison. It’s cruel, shameless, and inhumane.
They jailed him as they fear his powerful voice and global inspiration.
Shout his name and demand his freedom. He’d absolutely do the same for YOU.
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Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on baseless national security charges.
Wong has been in custody since November 2020, when he was 23, and faces imprisonment until late 2036, when he will be 40.
To keep Hong Kong society subdued, the government appears to have adopted the tactic of stacking charges against influential pro-democracy leaders to ensure their prolonged detention.
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Outrageously cruel 10-year sentence against #HongKong# activist Joshua Wong. Wong’s been detained since he was 23, and now he won’t get out until he’s 40–that’s if they don’t keep heaping more prison time on him. Relentless repression in HK.
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Thai authorities should not forcibly return two Uyghur men to China, where they face grave risks of torture and other serious abuses.
The two men, whose names are not public for security reasons, were transferred from prison to immigration detention in Bangkok after receiving a royal pardon, apparently in preparation for deportation.
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Berlin is preparing a far-reaching ban on Chinese network technology from German mobile networks
5G base stations will be classified as "security-relevant" for the first time. "A ban on base stations manufactured in China could lead to a de facto exclusion of Huawei & ZTE"
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Hong Kong's arrested 5 booksellers, raided 2 bookstores & intercepted book shipments. The "seditious" book intercepted is @EmilyZFeng's "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom," about Xi Jinping's ideological control, which kind of proves the point. News from Inmedia:
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As the annual Hong Kong Book Fair opens this week, two of the city’s best-known independent bookstores, Elmbook and Luckwin, won’t be there. On July 2, authorities barred them from exhibiting.
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Another heartbreaking account of the Chinese government's ongoing atrocities in the Uyghur homeland: @HKokbore waited a decade to hear his mother's voice, only to receive news of her passing. Beijing's inhumane brutality continues to haunt Uyghur exiles.
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“I am in exile, having fled nine years ago to avoid arrest. When I last saw my daughter, she was a wide-eyed 6-year-old. She is growing up today without her father in a country that wants her to forget who she is.”
A powerful must read from @TayorUyghur
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As China's authoritarian "ethnic unity law" takes effect, my heart is heavy. #Uyghur# script is removed from even the most iconic grand bazaar. If 10% of Uyghurs like my brother are in prison camps, the rest are strangers in their own land. The next generation will grow up without identity.
For those of us forced into exile, displacement feels more permanent. Any trace of homeland is erased year after year, along with ongoing atrocities.
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