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Uyghur campaign: letter
Group members publish letter in local paper
August 2026
Two members of the local group have their letter published today (13th) on the Uyghur campaign in the Salisbury Journal:
“DURING August, the local Amnesty group is taking part in the Uyghur Solidarity Month to highlight the dire human rights situation in that part of China.
“The UN Commissioner for Human Rights said there were credible allegations that the Chinese government had carried out arbitrary detention, torture, forced labour, family separation and severe restrictions on religious and cultural freedoms on a vast scale. Reading a book in their language is punished and might result in execution.
“Despite these findings, the suffering of the Uyghur people continues while the world looks on. More than a million Uyghurs have been detained and countless families have been torn apart.
“Survivors describe detention camps where torture, rape, forced labour and coercive birth control measures are carried out by the Chinese. Whether one views this issue through the lens of International law, religious freedom human rights or human dignity, the plight of these people deserves continued public attention.
“Further background can be found on the Salisbury Amnesty site www.salisburyai.com
Lesley and Peter Curbishley”
The letter was modelled on one suggested by the campaign team which had to be shortened because of the paper’s word limit.
- Uyghur campaign: letter
- Uyghur campaign – day 11
- Risks of University Partnerships with Arms Firms and Israel
- Obituary: Daphne White
- Uyghurs: getting the word out
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Uyghur campaign – day 11
Latest action in relation to the persecution of the Uyghurs
August 2026
Today’s action is a little bit different, as we will focus on issues closer to home rather than exclusively on the rights of the Uyghurs. We are asking you to sign the Amnesty petition to ‘protect the protest’ – something that we feel is ultimately essential to the future of all human rights campaigning.
In some of our recent posts, we have started to include issues concerning the UK with successive attempts by governments to clamp down on unwelcome protests. In the UK, new laws are constraining our ability protest peacefully, which is an attack on our political rights. It risks creating a precedent and mark the beginning of more infringements on our ability to campaign on human rights. The UK is not of course in the same league as China where repression and stifling of rights is on a massive scale.
However, governments are dilatory about climate actions, are determined to assist Israel overtly and covertly in their violence, and are happy to support and allow arms sales to a wide variety of obnoxious regimes with poor human rights records. Voluble protests against these actions are unwelcome.
We want to protect our ability to run campaigns such as this one on the Uyghurs. In the end, protecting our political rights means protecting the future work we will do for human rights globally. The current laws that impact our ability to protest peacefully, which infringes not only on basic human rights to assembly, association, and expression (Articles 10 and 11, Human Rights Act), also creates nearly 7,000 climate protesters were arrested in the UK between 2019 and mid-2025.
Since 2021, the government has proposed four different anti-protest laws in four years. Police have arrested 3,300 people for peaceful protest against the proscription of Palestine Action. The actual prosecution of peaceful protesters in the UK threatens our ability to raise our voices for human rights around the world. It is also an infringement on political rights that limits a human rights response in any instance of further infringement.
For the health of our human rights futures (and therefore, our ability to campaign for others) please sign this petition: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/authoritarianism/protect-the-protest/
Although this is not directly related to the Uyghurs as part of the Uyghur Solidarity Month, we did suggest in our last post on this topic an action to speak to a friend or colleague.
- Uyghur campaign – day 11
- Risks of University Partnerships with Arms Firms and Israel
- Obituary: Daphne White
- Uyghurs: getting the word out
- Uyghurs part of repression of all minorities in China
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Podcast Episode: Uyghur Solidarity And Advocacy
Short podcast of our last two posts on this campaign
Pip: August 2026, and a cultural genocide that’s largely dropped out of the news — which is exactly when a local Amnesty group decides to make some noise.
Mara: The Salisbury has been writing about Uyghur Solidarity Month, and that’s the territory we’re covering today — the scale of what’s happening in Xinjiang, and what people in Salisbury can actually do about it.
Pip: Let’s start with the oppression itself, and who’s trying to break through the silence.
Uyghur Solidarity Month: Oppression and the Fight for Awareness
Mara: The framing here is stark: this is described as “the largest campaign of cultural genocide in the modern era,” and Amnesty’s declaration of August as Uyghur Solidarity Month is a direct response to the crisis slipping from public view.
Pip: The post points to one outlet trying to hold that ground — Kashgar Times, founded in April 2025. Here’s how they describe their mission: “At Kashgar Times, our mission is to break through that silence. We aim to bridge the information gap. We provide a platform where Uyghur voices can be heard, and their stories told — free from propaganda.”
Mara: What that means in practice is that independent, on-the-ground reporting from Xinjiang is nearly impossible to obtain. China’s censorship has closed off the region to journalists and foreign observers entirely, so an outlet run by Uyghurs, for a global audience, is filling a gap that mainstream media simply cannot.
Pip: The scale is worth sitting with. Around a million individuals detained. Children separated from parents. Arbitrary detention, torture, forced labour, persecution on grounds of religion and ethnicity. And a proposed Chinese embassy in London — potentially the largest in Europe — raising fears about expanded surveillance of dissidents on British soil.
Mara: The second post, “Uyghur solidarity month,” pulls the crisis closer to home in a way that’s hard to dismiss. It includes a draft letter to local newspapers, drawing on findings from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the 2021 Uyghur Tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice KC, which concluded the Chinese government had committed genocide.
Pip: And then there’s the wardrobe argument — which is either uncomfortable or very effective, depending on your tolerance for being implicated personally. A quarter of the world’s cotton comes from Xinjiang.
Mara: The post puts it directly: “You will have in your wardrobe, or be wearing, many items made of cotton. It is highly likely that some of them have been made with cotton from this region using virtual slave labour.” The ask is simple — write to your local paper.
Pip: Silence, as the post notes, makes it easier to ignore. And writing a letter is not nothing.
Mara: A genocide that’s fallen out of the news cycle, and a local group working to put it back — that’s the thread running through everything here.
Pip: More to come through the month, apparently. We’ll be watching.
- Podcast Episode: Uyghur Solidarity And Advocacy
- Uyghur solidarity month
- Death penalty debate: Florida
- Uyghur Solidarity Month: A Call to Action
- Good attendance at latest vigil
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A moment that changed me: I found a forbidden novel – it led to a dangerous, lasting love
By Yalkun UluyolGrowing up in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, romance was frowned upon – as was much of my Uyghur culture. But one day, exploring a strange house, I found a gateway to both worlds
#Uyghurs #Books #China #Lifeandstyle #Xinjiang #Worldnews #Relationships #Marriage #TheGuardian #YalkunUluyol
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CW: CW: Imperialism, China
For the millionth time: if you're anti-imperialist, China is not your utopia. It's imperialist as fuck. Tibet. East Turkestan/Xinjiang. Hong Kong. The South China Sea. Constant military threats against Taiwan. You don't defeat one empire by cheering for another. Anti-imperialism means opposing empires. All of them.
This is not the utopia we are looking for.
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He helped China repress Uyghurs. He says he's a victim, too. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/30/asia-pacific/politics/china-uyghurs-victim/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #uyghurs #indigenouspeople #xinjiang
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A majority of members of the #parliament in #Estonia have signed a letter of protest against China's new "law on ethnic unity." The MPs strongly condemned the #law, which was aimed at assimilating ethnic minorities in #China, including #Mongols, #Tibetans, and #Uyghurs.
https://viabaltica.fi/estonia-mps-protest-chinas-ethnic-unity-law/
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@hkfp/116871150541994967
millions of #uyghurs, #tibetans, #mongolians are oppressed in #china, and #trump chooses to intervene for this one person...
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Average atrocity denialist
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2158159/average-atrocity-denialist
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UN Human Rights Office Reiterates Concerns Over Uyghur Rights in Xinjiang
> The United Nations Human Rights Office has reiterated its concerns over what it describes as “severe” human rights violations against the Uyghur population in Xinjiang, also known as East Turkestan, despite ongoing international scrutiny of the region.
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From a Hungarian choir in Budapest to EU diplomacy in Brussels, the fate of minority languages reveals how states define themselves — and whom they protect. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/11/world/fate-of-minority-languages/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #languages #nationalism #hungary #ukraine #miyako #taiwan #yaeyama #yonaguni #okinawan #unesco #eu #transcarpathia #china #tibetans #uyghurs #mongolians #russia #crimea #ryukyukingdom
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Thai court sentences two Uyghur men to death for 2015 Bangkok bombing https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/11/thai-court-sentences-uyghur-men-to-death-2015-bangkok-bombing #Thailand #WorldNews #AsiaPacific #Uyghurs #China #Xinjiang
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https://www.dw.com/en/thailand-2-men-sentenced-to-death-for-2015-bangkok-bombing/a-77499201. The #deathpenalty is wrong in principle, even if these men are guilty - & there has to be some doubt as to their guilt, given that they are #Muslim #ethnic #Uyghurs charged with killing #Chinese #tourists, when #Thailand seems all-too-anxious to appease #Communist #China, & has even deported Uyghurs back to China.
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I think most countries abandoned forced sterilization after WW2, but I hear it's making a comeback in the USA as well. Critical support for the comrades in DHS, I guess.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@ppoon/116684234806698603
So well-said, Kaixi! The free world has lost a free city - #HongKong. And the sacrifice of the #Uyghurs.The world should remember it!
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https://atlasflux.saynete.net/atlas_des_flux_rss_ang_dedicated_the_diplomat.xml#RSS #OPML #thediplomat #press #geopolitics #asia
#China #Japan #SouthKorea #NorthKorea #HongKong #Mongolia #Taiwan #Uyghurs #Tibet
#Brunei #Cambodia #Indonesia #Laos #Myanmar #Philippines #Singapore #Thailand #TimorLeste #Vietnam
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What an argument. #China, which produces solar panels partly through exploitation of #Uyghurs and their homeland's natural resources, can somehow support the #green transition in a region where #Indonesia is exploiting #Papuans and their resources.
Another way to put this - #Chinese cheap panels, produced via colonial exploitation, and help Indonesia further its colonial exploitation in #WestPapua
How is this desirable in any way?
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Western countries are increasingly confronting alleged Chinese transnational repression, prompting calls for democracies to coordinate a collective response against Beijing's overseas intimidation networks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/05/27/world/democracies-oppose-chinese-transnational-repression/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #uk #us #norway #humanrights #hongkong #uyghurs #tibetans
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MENA News Highlights - May 23 ‘26 - Zuhur News #321 on:
#SaudiArabia #Hajj #Syria #Uyghurs #Lebanon #ToxicWaste #Italy #Libya #Morocco #Iraq #Egypt #Migration #EU #Sudan #Lulu #Burhan #SouthSudan #Ethiopia #Eritrea #Israel Please subscribe if you can.https://www.patreon.com/posts/159002312?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
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There is no genocide in Ba Sing Se
https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2032489/there-is-no-genocide-in-ba-sing-se
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There is no genocide in Ba Sing Se
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2032488/there-is-no-genocide-in-ba-sing-se
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"B-b-but what about the Han/Soviet Man's Burden???"
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2022431/b-b-but-what-about-the-han-soviet-man-s-burden
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Don't worry, the PEOPLE'S cultural genocide will set those nasty Uyghurs right! Just a few more generations of 'reeducation camps' and sterilization, promise!
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Genocide is okay if it's done by red-painted fascists!
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2010064/genocide-is-okay-if-it-s-done-by-red-painted-fascists
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CW: Torture
‘I was tortured in a Chinese detention camp for Uyghurs. Starmer’s approval of a new embassy is a betrayal’ | The Independent
> Exclusive: Sayragul Sauytbay, the vice president of the East Turkestan government-in-exile, says she was tortured and abused while in Chinese detention. She tells Alex Croft that the UK has chosen to sweep China’s human rights record under the rug
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La repressione degli #Uiguri in #Cina continua.
"Le autorità cinesi hanno sottoposto uiguri e altri musulmani turchi a detenzioni arbitrarie di massa, detenzioni ingiuste, sorveglianza intrusiva e lavoro forzato."#humanRights #Uyghurs #China #21aprile
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/20/repression-of-uyghurs-persists-as-the-world-moves-on
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'Since when has the Left considered the political status of a territory millennia in the past to have any bearing on the justice of its political configuration in the present? What business is it of today’s radicals to plumb dynastic chronicles to decide whether this or that piece of land rightfully “belongs” to a modern state?'
#DavidBrophy's riposte to the Vijay Prashad/Tings Chak article in Monthly Review on #Xinjiang and #China's treatment of #Uyghurs
https://tempestmag.org/2026/04/dismissing-chinas-repression-in-xinjiang/
#campism #PRC
