Amnesty International Oakville has not given up on Celil
Celebrating a 45th birthday should be a time shared with family and loved ones, but for Huseyin Celil, it will be a day like any other.
Celebrating a 45th birthday should be a time shared with family and loved ones, but for Huseyin Celil, it will be a day like any other.
China urged its neighbor Afghanistan on Saturday to embrace an inclusive political solution to its long-running conflict during a rare visit by a top Chinese official, who said the very security of his own country's western regions depended on peace.
A senior Chinese official has warned the West against meddling in his country’s domestic affairs. Zhu Weiqun said that China has “time on its side” to win over Western opinion to its point of view on the restive regions of Tibet and Xinjiang.
China has "time on its side" to win over Western opinion to its point of view on the restive regions of Tibet and Xinjiang, a senior official wrote on Wednesday, vowing with unusually strong language to ignore foreign pressure on human rights.
Ilham Tohti, the Uighur intellectual who disappeared into the black hole of China’s security apparatus more than a month ago, appears to have prophesied his detention and what are expected to be charges of inciting ethnic separatism in the far western region of Xinjiang.
For a few weeks we have been following an increasing amount of information regarding the arrest of the Uyghur Professor at Beijing Central Minorities University, Ilham Tohti.
Chinese authorities said Friday that 11 people, believed to be ethnic minority Uyghurs, were killed when they allegedly attacked a police patrol in the latest deadly violence in northwestern China’s restive Xinjiang region.
The ambassador in charge of Ottawa's Office of Religious Freedom defends his mission to support global communities under threat. But some critics see the office as a political tool.