MOROCCO: Ethnic Uyghur at Risk of Extradition to China
DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 14/22 BELOW Idris Hasan, an ethnic Uyghur living in Turkey, was arrested in July 2021 in Morocco on the basis of an Interpol red notice, […]
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China: UN must act on Xinjiang atrocities after petition shows mass global outrage
More than 323,000 people worldwide sign Amnesty International’s ‘Free Xinjiang Detainees’ petition Open letter urges UN to investigate human rights violations against Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities New testimonies […]
Reflecting on “The Crossroad of Sports and Politics”
In the winter of grade eleven, I took the course that inspired me to write my article: The Crossroad of Sports and Politics: Boycotting the 2022 Beijing Olympics. This course, Genocide and Crimes […]
Huseyin Celil
Huseyin Celil is a Canadian citizen and a Uyghur human rights activist originally from China who promoted the rights of China’s Uyghur minority. In 2001, he fled China after being in jail for supporting the religious and political rights of the Uyghur people. The United Nations recognized him...
Call on China to Free Xinjiang Detainees
Imagine if you were detained in an internment camp or sentenced to prison for years because of your ethnicity or religion, your life or travels abroad, the number of children […]
UN: Growing international concern must translate into concrete action over China’s crimes against humanity in Xinjiang
A statement delivered at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva by a cross-regional group of 43 states who are “gravely concerned” about China’s serious human rights violations in Xinjiang […]
China: Draconian repression of Muslims in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity
Hundreds of thousands of Muslim minority men and women subjected to mass internment and torture Millions of Muslims subjected to systematized mass surveillance Muslim ethnic groups forced to abandon their […]
ANNUAL REPORT: COVID-19 hits those shackled by oppression hardest thanks to decades of inequalities, neglect and abuse
Pandemic lays bare massive systemic inequality worldwide with ethnic minorities, health workers, and women among the most severely impacted Report finds COVID-19 weaponized by leaders to ramp up their assault […]
China: Parents of missing Uyghur children describe horror of family separation
The exiled families of Uyghur children held in state “orphanages” in the Chinese region of Xinjiang described the torment of being separated in a new piece of Amnesty International research […]
Crisis and Tactical Round Up: Close Guantanamo and more
New: Close Guantanamo! The incoming administration in the US represents a fresh opportunity to press for closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Forty men continue to be held […]
The year of the pandemic laid bare our global human rights crisis. Now let’s fix it
Leaders ignore their responsibilities at their peril. Across the globe, people are organizing in extraordinary numbers, with a sense of common purpose that unites them across race, gender, age and […]
We have come far and have far to go still
35 years ago, on a wintry evening in early 1985, I attended my first Amnesty International meeting. I had just begun studying law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, with an entirely unformed notion of becoming […]
