UNPO Denounces Tohti’s Life Sentence
Photo: KX Studio@flickr On Wednesday 17 September, Chin activists and a Burmese politician held a press conference in Rangoon, accusing a Burma Army unit of detaining and torturing six Chin farmers. The...
Photo: PEN American Center@flickr The trial of Uyghur economics professor, Ilham Tohti, began on Wednesday 17 September and was expected to last two days, though a verdict has yet to be announced. Mr...
An Iraqi Turkmen Member of Parliament, Nahla Sallamah, has alleged that at least 350,000 Iraqi Turkmen refugees face starvation as a consequence of the ongoing upheavals across much of the country. The...
A Tibetan student has become the 132nd person to self-immolate in the region since 2009, and the first in five months. Lhamo Tashi seemingly killed himself in protest against Chinese oppression in Tibet...
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) took part in the 4th New World Summit (NWS), entitled "Stateless State", which was organised in the Royal Flemish Theatre of Brussels between...
Professor Ilham Tohti, founder of the ‘Uyghur Online’ website, is being tried in Urumqi on separatism charges and may be convicted as early as next week, but his lawyer expects him to face...
This week marked a particularly dark period in the ongoing stifling of freedoms of the Crimean Tatars as epitomized by unfair local elections and the raiding of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar...
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