Title Komisi Pemilihan Umum (KPU) Provinsi Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta Summary The Yogyakarta Election Provincial Commission is a part of the General Election Commission (KPU) which has the authority to conduct the election of President/Vice President, Election of Members of the DPR/DPRA/DPRK, and Election of Regional Heads and Deputy Regional Heads (Pilkada) in Yogyakarta. After enduring persecution from the Chinese government, Isa fled China in 1994 and sought asylum in Europe, and became a citizen of Germany in 2006. "[25] The notice was removed in early 2018. } They lie. [26], Dolkun Isa is a former student-leader of the pro-democracy demonstrations at Xinjiang University in 1988. The Clinton administration justified its humanitarian intervention as a mission to prevent the massacre of Kosovos ethnic Albanian population by the new HitlerSerbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. Former United NationsSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who serves aschair of the IOCs Ethics Commission, is now being asked to either review and rule on the complaint or appoint someone who will. The World Uyghur Congress describes itself as a nonviolent and peaceful movement that opposes what it considers to be the Chinese occupation of East Turkestan, and advocates rejection of totalitarianism, religious intolerance and terrorism as an instrument of policy. 8 March 2022. Kadeer speaks Uyghur and Mandarin Chinese. listeners: [], Other countries have followed suit, with Canada and the Dutch parliament passing motions last month that label the treatment of Uyghurs a genocide. Administrative Appeals Chamber (Upper Tribunal)CivilHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionJudgment, Neutral Citation Number: [2023] EWHC 88 (Admin)Case No: CO/2931/2021, In the High Court of JusticeKings Bench DivisionAdministrative Court, Between:The King on the Application of World Uyghur Congress-v-Secretary Of State For The Home DepartmentCommissioners for His Majestys Revenue and Customs Service National Crime Agency. The sole person making the charge, American committee member Gay McDougall, stated she was deeply concerned about credible reports.. })(); Munich office: Tel: +49 89 5432 1999 The World Uyghur Congress accused theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) of ignoring an ethics complaint it filed last year to move the 2022 Winter Games out of Beijing due to China's alleged human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims and other minorities. In addition to prohibiting US firms from exporting technology to the companies, the US government with the designation signaled loudly that the companies were complicit in Chinas mass detention of Uyghurs. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The NED has funnelled millions of dollars into the World Uyghur Congress since its inception in . In Modesto, the local school district confirmed in February it used federal funding to purchase cameras for contact tracing for about $257,000. implement vast facial recognition systems. Yet Zenzs highly tendentious research forms a large component of the so-called evidence for allegations of Uyghur detentions, forced labour and sterilization of Uyghur women. Probably the most important institution pushing an anti-China outlook Canada's military offers a unique window into US influence. Hikvision, Dahua, Huawei and SenseTime, Chinas largest facial recognition startup which filed a patent in 2019 that included the ability to classify Uyghurs from non-Uyghurs, landed on the list in 2019. The exhibition was to run for one month. The Associated Press contributed to this report. No evidence is provided. Adolf-Kolping-Strae 9 } (2005). The 2019 patent which described the ability to classify Uyghurs was neither designed nor intended in any way to discriminate against that or any other groups as such an action is a violation of our company values, Chang said. Protesters hold Tibetan flags during a protest against Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics by activists of the Tibetan Youth Association in Europe, in front of the International Olympic Committee, IOC, headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), whose president Dolkun Isa is an exiled Uyghur Muslim, is taking a hybrid approach to seeking justice for the Uyghur. It was set up at the request of the World Uyghur Congress, an international organisation of exiled Uighurs. Reminder: BBC commission Adrian Zenz who is happy to concoct twaddle. On February 2nd, eagle-eyed pro-China activist Arnaud Bertrand revealed that WEghur Stories, a podcast "working to create a conversation within and about the global Uyghur diaspora" that has been aggressively promoted on Facebook and Spotify, is funded by Washington's French diplomatic missionand that John Bair, its co-creator, co-host and producer, is a former CIA operative. Reuters in their article boosts its claim by citing a murky Washington DC based NGO, the Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD). I said, Ill see what I can find.. from-idlib-to-xinjiang-uyghur-fighters-trained-for-terror/, xinjiang-and-uyghurs-what-youre-not-being-told/, bestchinainfo.com/guest-posts/jerrygrey-xinjiang/, From CGTN: UK-radio-presenter-spreads-disinformation, How I too was fooled by western propaganda, also this: western-aggression toward China, and this: if I could be fooled, so could millions of others. The Congress is funded in part by the National Endowment for Democracy or NED . No one, however, should give any credence to US claims to be concerned about the democratic rights of the Uyghurs, or anyone else for that matter. Help Uyghur. Would be good to investigate this more closely. (Link to Russian report in the thread). I said no, too hard, too little evidence They asked again. Defending the case, the government argued that the claimant had only provided evidence of a chance that a crime had been committed, without any of the necessary details to warrant a criminal investigation. A thoroughly pliant and corrupt American and international media immediately fell into line with sensational stories of Serbian atrocities. Update information for World Uyghur Congress . "Accountability starts now." Ms. Kadeer's election has given new hope and strength for WUC and the Uyghur people all around the world. Our legal team has worked hard on this, and together we will continue to hold the Chinese government accountable.. Rue de Trves 49 It said the governments position made the UK an international outlier and a safe haven for importers of goods produced as a result of crimes against humanity, and genocide. Very cleverly worded? Superb thread From @RyanMcManimie: Utter and total #debunk of the lies and propaganda spewed out by #MehdiHasan @mehdirhasanhttp://Haaretz.com David Stavrou and @haaretzcom on the fraud #SayragulSautbay who, in actual fact does a great job of totally debunking herself. It is a member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, and is based primarily in Munich, home to a large Uyghur diaspora. } [13] Alptekin is based in Germany.[29]. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) took those limitations further and banned the use of federal funds to buy products from Huawei, Dahua or Hikvision. Commissioners for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs Service. Still, many of those companies have seen little to no consequences for their contribution, even as they have been flagged by the US government for aiding in a humanitarian crisis. [3][4] The Congress is funded in part by the National Endowment for Democracy or NED of the United States. In the Assembly, the World Uyghur Youth Congress, which was formed in November 1996, and the East Turkestan National Congress declared their unification by forming the World Uyghur Congress. At least four other survivors who testified recalled cells and facilities that were surveilled from floor to ceiling, leaving them little to no privacy. "I was shocked at the scant response to our original lengthy and evidence-based complaint, which was to simply refer us back to the IOC Executive Committee, the very subject of our ethical complaint," Polak saidFriday. It said 85% of Chinese cotton was grown in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and the vast majority was manufactured in facilities under conditions of detention and forced labour, implicating UK companies that imported from certain Chinese firms. Rebiya Kadeer (born 15 November 1946) is an ethnic Uyghur, businesswoman and political activist. The event allowed members of the Uyghur community from around the world to share in their common culture and heritage as the WUC looks to protect Uyghur identity going forward. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Balfour House, 741 High Road London N12 0BP, United Kingdom. If the IOC allows China to host the 2022 Winter Games, it is willfully and intentionally abandoning the values and principles that underpin the Olympic Movement. Several Republican lawmakers have pressured the Biden administration to either boycott the games in Beijing or lobbythe IOC to move them elsewhere. When Muhammad temporarily returned home in 2014 after being detained for a year, he said he found whole communities barricaded with iron gates; and cameras installed everywhere. Watch David Norths remarks commemorating 25 years of the World Socialist Web Site and donate today. China denies that any human rights abuses are taking place in its Xinjiang province, saying that its policies are in place to combat radicalism. Japanese and international media covered the protest. [8] The Congress has convened seven assemblies since its inceptionin 2004, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2021. The WUC engages in a wide-range of awareness raising and advocacy campaigns about the human rights situation for Uyghurs in the PRC, concentrating on United States Congress in Washington, EU member states, and EU and UN human rights mechanisms. The public opening session brought together members of the Uyghur community with representatives of civil society in France as well as WUC affiliate organizations from around the world to highlight the successes of those groups as well potential areas for improvement. The goal of these surveillance tactics is not only to instill fear in Uyghurs minds that every aspect of their behavior is monitored, but most importantly to single out Uyghurs for detention in the internment camp system, Isaa said. East Turkistan neighbors nine countries Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Tibet & China. } Who is Gulchehra Hoja? [13] President Kadeer met United States President George W. Bush in June 2007,[23] and British Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials in October the same year. "Real people are suffering from these crimes every day and the Olympics and the sponsors risk being forever tainted with the intense suffering of my people.". [34], From 10 to 12 November 2017, the World Uyghur Congress successfully completed its 6th General Assembly on 12 November in Munich, Germany. Ditto the economy. Inside the cell, here was a camera, there was a camera, on all sides and angles there were cameras, he said. And one can deduce this quite simply, from a very flimsy note.. which could have been written by anyone.. anywhere.. and a photo of a not very pleasant mass-produced slipper (Which was made in Vietnam by the way not China, not XinJiang) oh, them golden slippers.. https://pbs.twimg.com ;>. By Zheng Chen, Zhang Han and Liu Xin Source:Global Times Published: 2019/12/16 0:48:40 Last modified on Fri 20 Jan 2023 10.50 EST. included WUC President @Dolkun_Isa, HRW ED @TiranaHassan, NED President @DamonMacWilson and camp survivor Gulbahar Hatiwaji." 1000 Brussels, Belgium, London Office: Actually, no. He provided no evidence for the accusation and made no attempt to justify the use of the term genocide which implies a deliberate policy of extermination applied to Uyghurs. The only camera-free place was where the toilet was., Nur was released in 2018, but he did not escape the watchful eye of the government. June 16, 2020 Before the Tiananmen Massacre, Uyghurs Led Their Own Protest By Dolkun Isa. The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) is an international organisation that represents the collective interest of the Uyghur people both in East Turkistan and abroad. The NED quickly developed a notoriety of its own for funding right-wing, pro-US outfits around the world and for engineering the so-called colour revolutions in the former Soviet republics. The WUC is a democratic organisation. In San Bernardino, Hesperia Unified School district used federal Cares act funding to purchase Hikvision thermal bullet cameras and accessories for a total of $271,745. The company said it was dismayed when it learned an ethnicity detection feature was being tested and that it was eliminated from the product offering and would not be used in the future. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Various testimonies from non-Chinese world reveal that Beijing has in fact intensified its operations by putting more people in internment camps. Kadeer held various positions in China's parliament and other political institutions before being arrested in 1999 for, according to Chinese state media, sending confidential internal reference reports to her husband, who worked in the United States as a pro-Xinjiang independence broadcaster. Workers walk by the perimeter fence of what is officially known as a vocational skills education center in Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region in China on 4 September 2018. The lawyers warned that wielding the g-word without a solid legal basis also carries the risk of politicising and eroding the power of the designation, given its application to the worst cases of mass killings including of millions of Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps. The feature is routinely specified in tenders for public surveillance projects, he wrote. With astonishing speed, the US media has swung into action churning out a growing deluge of propaganda with lurid horror stories of life in the detention camps in Xinjiang, calls for the US to boycott the Winter Olympics in Beijing, and demands for tougher measures against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime. Archie Bland and Nimo Omer take you through the top stories and what they mean, free every weekday morning, He said: The outcome of the case does not in any way undermine the striking consensus in the evidence that there are clear and widespread abuses in the cotton industry in the XUAR, involving human rights violations and the exploitation of forced labour.. It has been described as "cyber-separatism" which is supported in part by wealthy Uyghurs in the Middle East. SenseTime, which filed to go public in Hong Kong, wrote in its IPO prospectus that the entity list addition has not had any material adverse impact on its business. Because there are no facts. He was then dismissed from university but completed his physics degree via independent study, and went on to receive a master's degree in Politics and Sociology from Gazi University in Turkey and a degree in Computer Science in Munich, Germany. However, this is only the beginning of such a process, with this case being the first [brought by Uyghurs concerning repression] in a foreign court. World Uyghur Youth Congress, Uyghur American Association. Camera surveillance has become pervasive in detention facilities and outside of them, the testimonies at the tribunal highlighted. There were only singing songs and torture, Nur testified. The Chinese Communists are attempting to wipe out a culture, a way of life, a people, it declared. By 2018, camera surveillance had become a feature of daily life for Uyghur Muslims and members of other ethnic minorities in China, both inside and outside the gates of the camps, testimony from survivors and experts at the tribunal detailed. Beijing did so with the support of Washington, initially by the Bush administration, which was looking for international support for its own criminal activities under the banner of the global war on terror.. Gearid Cuinn, the director of GLAN, said: The whole purpose of the Proceeds of Crime Act is to ensure that crime doesnt pay. Headquarters: [17] According to the WUC, its main aim is to "promote the right of the Uyghur people to use peaceful, nonviolent, and democratic means to determine the political future of East Turkestan." All of these objections were rapidly swept aside by Pompeo, then the Biden administration as it came to office. A camera is mounted on a watchtower at a high-security facility in Xinjiang, China, believed to be a re-education camp where Uyghurs are detained. 10179 Berlin, Germany, Brussels Office: Everything you need to know.. Campaign for Uyghurs, a group of Uyghur separatists in exile, is a branch of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an ultra-nationalist organization, and its mission is to subvert China and establish . "[19] The Congress has also said China is exaggerating the threat from terrorists in order to justify repression in the region. [20], The Congress, like the Uyghur American Association based in Washington, D.C., use mass media and their own websites in an aim to inform the international community of human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The RFA and Hoja operate in close collaboration with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) established in 1983 as a means of continuing activities vital to US imperialism that had been tarnished by the CIAs notoriety. She is intimately connected to Uyghur exile groups, including the World Uyghur Congress and the American Uyghur Association, which call for the formation of an independent East Turkestan. By representing as the sole legitimate organization of the Uyghur people both in East Turkistan and abroad, WUC endeavours to set out a course for the peaceful settlement of the East Turkistan Question through dialogue and negotiation. The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) filed a complaint with the Olympic committee's ethics commission on August 2020 requesting the organization reconsider holding the 2022 Olympics in China due to . Long-time Uyghur activist and co-founder of the WUC, Dolkun Isa, was elected as WUC President and former vice-president, Omer Kanat was elected as Chairman of the Executive Committee. [14] It has labeled the WUC's president as a "terrorist" who "conspired with separatists and religious extremists to plan terror attacks. Notably, the CHRD official address is that of the Human Rights Watch which gets funds also from the Soros foundation. Yes. World Uyghur Congress . Louisa Greve, the director of global advocacy at the Uyghur Human Rights Project argued that those companies deserve scrutiny and that the Biden administration should expand its executive order to include all the firms that are on the entity list. Speaking in the Senate of the Italian Republic during a press conference to present Dolkun Isa's book The Chinese Freedom Trap, which was organized in collaboration with the "Marco Pannella" Global Committee for the Rule of Law, Senator Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata emphasized the significance of Isa's presence in Rome.He noted that the Uyghur leader had been prevented from entering the . The NATO war on Serbia was part of the efforts of US imperialism and its allies to take advantage of the break-up of Yugoslavia along ethnic and religious lines. The Congress was formed in mid-April 2004 at a meeting in Munich, Germany, as a collection of various exiled Uyghur groups, advocating for "greater autonomy," including the World Uyghur Youth Congress (WUYC) and some members of the East Turkestan National Congress (ETNC) following a split among the East Turkestan National Congress over the issue of autonomy vs independence. Today, Uyghurs practice a moderate form of Islam and lead predominantly secular lives. . 10179 Berlin, Germany, Brussels Office: They lied about Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Hong Kong, and theyre lying about XinJiang. The hue and cry about Uyghur genocide is aimed at stampeding public opinion behind the Biden administrations escalating confrontation with China and its military build-up for war. Washington has a long history of turning on and turning off human rights to fit the strategic interests of US imperialism. Rahima Mahmut, U.K. director of the World Uyghur Congress, said she was relieved the report is finally out but had no hope it would change the Chinese government's behaviour and called on the . 28 October 2022. Dolkun Isa, of the WUC, said: This is a greatly disappointing outcome for the Uyghur community that has been seeking accountability for years. In the past, Washingtons focus has been on the Dalai Lama and allegations of Chinese oppression of the Tibetan population. The tribunal was established in response to a request made by Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress. The World Uyghur Congress strives to promote democracy, human rights and freedom for the Uyghur people through peaceful, nonviolent, and democratic means in order to determine their political future. It is just three months since former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, during his final day in office, branded Chinas actions against the Muslim Uyghur minority in western Xinjiang as genocide. As the freedom of speech and assembly in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) have been fully eroded as part of the Uyghur genocide, the WUC reminds the . This march brought together Uyghurs from many different diaspora groups from around the world and it is estimated that there were around 2,000 participants. The participants also demanded that China stop the destruction of the Uyghur's cultural, religious and linguistic identity. Nov 18: A Russian citizen from St. Petersburg reportedly finds a note in a box of shoes from China that says: Help, I am in jail in China. Dahua, the second largest global camera manufacturer, developed alarms that would alert clients when an Uyghur was detected and a feature that purportedly recognized Uyghurs with hidden terrorist inclinations, internal documents show. The source of the claim it turns out is a UN independent advisory NGO called Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Held in conjunction with the meeting was a conference on the Uyghur conflict entitled: East Turkestan: 60 Years under Communist Chinese Rule, that took place on 18 and 19 May, prior to the Assembly. The CIA suggested in2003 that should the US find itself in a crisis or confrontation with China in the future, the option of using the"Uyghur card" as a means of exerting pressure should not be taken off the table. He added that there may be other tools or resources available to the government and law enforcement agencies or evidence that could be provided to them which could provide an effective basis for tackling the concerns in respect of cotton production in the XUAR and the exploitation and abuse of the Uyghur people with which it has been associated. Dolkun Isa. There are an estimated 20 million Uyghurs living in East Turkistan and abroad, though Chinese sources put the number at 11.65 million. Washington had previously branded the KLA as a terrorist organisation due to its ties with Al Qaeda, but rapidly reversed course, provided money and arms, and declared it to be the sole legitimate representative of Kosovos population. Countless reports have detailed detainees enduring torture, coerced abortions as well as re-education in what former secretary of state Mike Pompeo described as the forced assimilation and eventual erasure of Uyghurs by the Chinese government. Alibabas cloud services provider, the largest in China, lists Is [the face] Uyghur? as an attribute it can detect and filed a patent for ethnicity detection in 2016, according to a 2020 Ipvm report. Lawyers and representatives from the World Uyghur Congress and members of the Uyghur community in the UK standing outside the high court in London last October. [31], From 21 to 25 May 2009, the World Uyghur Congress successfully held its Third General Assembly in Washington D.C. WUC delegates from the United States, Canada, the Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan attended this assembly.
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