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Radio Free Asia was incorporated in March 1996, and began broadcasting in September 1996. Although RFA directors preferred to broadcast under the name "the Asia-Pacific Network", Republican representatives including Chris Smith and Jesse Helms insisted on returning the name to Radio Free Asia before broadcasting began, to which president ...
According to Radio Free Asia, Ghalipjan, a 35 year old Uyghur man from Shanshan/Pichan County who was married and had a five-year-old son, died in a re-education camp on 21 August 2018. Authorities reported his death was due to heart attack , but the head of the Ayagh neighborhood committee said that he was beaten to death by a police officer.
Gulchehra "Guli" A. Hoja (born 1973) is a Uyghur–American journalist who has worked for Radio Free Asia since 2001. [1] [2] [3] In November 2019, Hoja received the Magnitsky Human Rights Award for her reporting on the ongoing human rights crisis in Xinjiang [4] and in 2020, Hoja received the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation [5] and was listed among ...
The "Pair Up and Become Family" program assigned Han Chinese men to monitor the homes of Uyghurs and sleep in the same beds as Uyghur women. [210] According to Radio Free Asia, these Han Chinese government workers were trained to call themselves "relatives" and forcibly engaged in co-habitation of Uyghur homes for the purpose of promoting ...
Dolkun Isa, President of the World Uyghur Congress, told Radio Free Asia after the first day of hearings that "[t]he Uyghur Tribunal hearing has gone extremely well today in spite of China's disinformation campaign and diplomatic threats against tribunal, camp survivors and witnesses." [14]
In April 2018, the World Uyghur Writers’ Union was established in Istanbul by a group of 25 Uyghur writers. [19] Tahir Hamut Izgil was chosen to be their leader. [20] Izgil is now a film producer at Radio Free Asia, which has been active in documenting China's persecution of the Uyghurs. [19] [20]
Pages in category "Uyghur-language mass media" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Radio Free Asia; U. Ürümqi Television Station; X.
Rushan Abbas (Uyghur: روشەن ئابباس; Chinese: 茹仙·阿巴斯; [1] born June 14, 1967) [2] is a Uyghur American activist and advocate from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. She is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Campaign for Uyghurs and was elected the Chairperson of the Executive Committee of World ...