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A UK based volunteer-led organisation working to raise awareness of the Uyghur genocide.

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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Powerful show of support from @EmilyThornberry and @UKLabour for the #GenocideAmendment . I hope members of the @Conservatives will stand up for what is right and support the amendment. @SteveBakerHW @BrineMP @carolinenokes @JulianSturdy
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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“No one can deny what is happening against the Uyghur people. Genocide.” @Nus_Ghani at the #Uyghur protest in London today. 👏 #GenocideGames #UyghurGenocide
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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This speech encompasses why it is so important the #GenocideAmendment passes. @MPIainDS
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
For #InternationalWomensDay this year, we would like to touch upon this documentary published by @IsobelYeung a powerful female journalist who has gotten further than anyone in terms of investigating the camps in China.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
The Government's add on to the #GenocideAmendment makes it useless and contradicts their previous stance. @EmilyThornberry telling it how it is and how future generations will question these actions.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
3 years
BREAKING: The Government has (once again) refused to declare the atrocities in Xinjiang a genocide & have failed to confirm whether they will enact a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Fascinating event held by the @UyghurCongress tonight on #London . Great to meet so many people fighting for the #Uyghur people #uyghurGenocide #genocide @MahmutRahima
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
3 years
The UN is giving the names of Uyghur dissidents to China, writes @joshrfeldman
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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**QUOTE RETWEET** and tag your MP and @BorisJohnson ! In the final few days before the vote we need every MP to know that their constituents want them to support the #GenocideAmendment ! #uyghurs #HumanRights @MahmutRahima @RachelRileyRR @EmilyThornberry @UyghurStop
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Tomorrow, June 1st marks International Children’s Day across 30+ former communist countries. We keep in mind the almost 1 million Uyghur children impacted by the Chinese government’s horrific genocide against their community.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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“Boycott the #Beijing #WinterOlympics and help raise awareness of the #UyghurGenocide .” Great interview with @MahmutRahima on @TimesRadio 👏🏼 #GenocideGames
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Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Because deepening economic ties with a genocidal regime is totally a great way to hold them to account.
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Amanda Milling
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Today I had my first meeting with China's ambassador @AmbZhengZeguang . We discussed the scope for working together and strengthening our economic ties, and I raised the UK's concerns about Hong Kong & the human rights violations in Xinjiang.
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Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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On 30/12/2020 the EU signed an Investment Treaty with China. Despite the EU’s focus towards human rights this appeared to be a backwards step as it allows European manufactures to use the forced labour camps in China. From Jan 1st the UK properly left the EU… (thread)
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
3 years
Another devastating attack on personal, religious & intellectual freedoms by the CCP & the Apple corporation.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Great turnout at this evening’s demo in Piccadilly Circus to say no to the #GenocideGames ‼️
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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. @DominicRaab 's words were robust, but his actions fall significantly short of what is needed. Despite this disappointment, some MP's stood up and showed themselves to be on the right side of history. We will share some of their words. @LaylaMoran #UyghurGenocide #Parliament
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
This is the first of our ‘profile’ pieces on figures who are campaigning on the Uyghur issue. @Nursiman11 is an inspirational figure who spends her life fighting for her family’s release from Chinese concentration camps. @DominicRaab do something.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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This is the full interview with @Nursiman11 . Nursiman's story is powerful and upsetting, and needs to be heard far and wide. Both her brothers and parents are in concentration camps. She touches upon issues such as forced sterilisation and forced marriage.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Uyghur student Abuduwaili Abudureheman has been missing for two weeks after entering Hong Kong. Before going missing he told a friend he was being interrogated by Chinese police. Abuduwaili is at high risk of detention & torture.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
3 years
BREAKING: Boris Johnson is set to pursue closer economic ties with China by pushing to restart high-level ministerial talks on the matter. Given China’s ongoing role in genocide and other crimes- and it’s sanctioning of UK parliamentarians-this is completely unacceptable.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
Thank you @ThangamMP for speaking out in support of Uyghurs and highlighting @BorisJohnson ’s flawed China policy regarding the #GenocideAmendment . #PoliticsLive
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
Round 3 of the #genocideamendment - we are ready to go! Looking forward to another campaign, we have a lot planned! @YetAgainUK @UyghurStop @DavidAltonHL @lukedepulford @BTB_UK_
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
2 years
BREAKING: Nus Ghani MP, who has been active in campaigns relating to the Uyghur Genocide, has been appointed a minister at BEIS.
@PARLYapp
PARLY
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More ministerial appointments
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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UK parliament has passed the motion to call China out for committing genocide on the #Uyghur people Thank you @Nus_Ghani and everyone who spoke up for this. A major step forward in the fight for Uyghur freedom.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
. @DominicRaab your announcements today 'aren't sufficient for the moment in hand.' @RhonddaBryant is correct. Please be a leader on this issue, and 1) impose Magnitsky sanctions, 2) support the #genocideamendment and 3) call the treatment of Uyghurs what it is, a genocide.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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“Institutions, individuals and governments, especially in the Muslim world, have put power profits over Uyghur human life.” @MahmutRahima @UyghurCongress #uyghur #r4today #genocide
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
3 years
The House of Commons has unanimously passed the motion to diplomatically boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. #UyghurGenocide #GenocideGames
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
2 years
🚨Foundation for Uyghur Freedom volunteer @EllaMorga_n is running the Paris Marathon on April 2nd to raise money for the UK Uyghur Community🚨 Please consider donating if you are able:
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Merry Christmas to all those celebrating, especially the many Christians-including Uyghurs-who live under persecution. ❤️🙏
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Thank you @RhonddaBryant for bringing up the government's contradictory stance on the treatment of Uyghurs and the #GenocideAmedmnet in your question for the #IntegratedReview
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Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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. @DominicRaab @BorisJohnson your inaction on the Uyghur genocide is not good enough. @Nursiman11 ’s family, and many others, need help. The UK needs to do more. #TheWorldIsWatching #Uyghur #HumanRights #ukpolitics #china #genocide #BorisJohnson
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
3 years
She’s right.
@josephtiman
Joseph Timan
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An objector has been ejected after interrupting the meeting to tell the committee that they have "blood on their hands", holding pictures or the Uyghur Muslims in Chinese concentration camps #LDReporter
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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@KuzzatAltay
Kuzzat Altay
3 years
#China ’s Olympic athletes to wear kit manufactured with #Uyghur slave labour.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Eid Mubarak to Muslims across the world. We keep in mind our #Uyghur brothers and sisters currently suffering under the CCP occupation & genocide.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
It's International Day for the Abolition of Slavery AND There's still 40 million people living as slaves worldwide. Yes, 40 million. There's work to do. Go to our IG to read more. #FreeUyghur #modernslavery #InternationalDayforAbolitionofSlavery
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
Our new article is out. Written by associate writer, @llggeorgia
@UKMallard
The Mallard 🦆
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"It is no secret that the Chinese state and its affiliated enterprises enforce a vast network of forced labour, organ harvesting, surveillance and predatory attitudes to all manner of private liberties." From Assistant Editor @llggeorgia .
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Today we saw MPs from all parties show their disdain that the government will allow the Governor of Xinjiang to enter the UK for 'talks'. Here is a thread of some of the quotes from earlier today 👇
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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The appointment of David Cameron as Foreign Secretary is yet further proof the government has no serious strategy when it comes to the Chinese regime & its #UyghurGenocide .
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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💙🪕🎶 @MahmutRahima & her band will be live at the Grand Junction on Feb 15th. All proceeds will go towards a campaign initiative by @UyghurStop and @BellwetherNGO . BUY TICKETS HERE:
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Beijing has recently ramped up its use of established extradition treaties with Central Asian nations to target Chinese-origin Uyghurs and transport them back to China to face criminal proceedings for alleged offences.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
To all those who tweeted, emailed or worked day and night to pass the #GenocideAmendment , thank you. We may not have won tonight, but we were very close and we will not give up. It will go back to the House of Lords shortly- so onwards and upwards!
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
**BREAKING** New campaign launched to #StopGenocideTrade Click the link and send a letter to YOUR MP now and ask them to support the #GenocideAmendment
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
3 years
Our editor in chief @llggeorgia has written for @ConHome on why the Government must not ignore yet another opportunity to acknowledge the Uyghur genocide. Tomorrow the @TribunalUyghur will deliver its determination after months of investigation.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Brilliant news- the US becomes the first country to make this determination! Hopefully others will follow. #UyghurGenocide
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Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Join our team of volunteers advocating for the freedom of Uyghurs!
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Are we all complicit in modern day slavery? #Uyghur #UyghurAwareness #UyghurGenocide
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
Thank you @RuthCadbury for standing up for Uyghurs today in Parliament. We hope that all MPs will be on the right side of history in this vote and #CallItGenocide #UyghurGenocide #Uyghur
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
2 years
The DWP has banned Chinese state-owned surveillance equipment from its buildings. @Nus_Ghani has forwarded an amendment to make the policy government-wide 🔒
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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. @DominicRaab why are you not imposing Magnitsky sanctions on Chinese officials involved in the Uyghur genocide? @MPIainDS coherently makes the case for doing so, and the UK Government should be listening. #Uyghur #Parliament
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
Uyghurs are being kidnapped, put in concentration camps, forcibly sterilised and tortured. @BorisJohnson and @DominicRaab need to step up and take action. This is genocide. Clip from BBC documentary- China: A New World Order #Uyghurs #UyghurGenocide #China #HumanRights
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Excellent news that @ctshirts are scaling back shirt making in China because that’s what “customers” want. This is the power of the consumer! YOU are not powerless. Please tell companies that you don’t want your products made in China. #boycottmadeinchina
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Why are The @Guardian newspaper running ads for @UNIQLO_UK , a company known to be profiting from Uyghur forced labour? #UyghurGenocide #Xinjiang #Hypocrisy
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
3 years
Our Editor in Chief @llggeorgia will be on @talkRADIO this evening discussing this 👇👇& the huge document leak to the @TribunalUyghur earlier this week.
@llggeorgia
Georgia Leigha Gilholy
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I’ll be on @talkRADIO at half ten discussing ex shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon’s refusal to condemn the Chinese govt’s human rights abuses.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Highlights from the #GenocideAmendment debate earlier this week. Thank you to all MPs who stood up for Uyghurs. The battle is not over- stay tuned! @EmilyThornberry @SKinnock @MPIainDS @eastantrimmp @marykfoy @imranahmadkhan @Nus_Ghani @ShabanaMahmood
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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“We want to have a constructive relationship with #China with a strong partnership in academia and business. But we never sacrifice our values.” @damianhinds do the UK’s values include supporting genocide? #today #radio4 #uyghur #ChineseCommunistParty #uyghurgenocide
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
2 years
On Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, the Foundation for Uyghur Freedom remembers the 6 million Jewish men, women and children tragically killed by Nazi Genocide May their memories be for a blessing #LightTheDarkness #HolocaustMemorialDay #HMD2023
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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THREAD: 🗣 This week the United Nations marked The International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, let's shed light on the harrowing plight of Uyghur journalists in China. Shockingly, 44% of China's imprisoned journalists are Uyghurs. 😡
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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@SaveUyghurOrg
Save Uyghur Org
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Apple is protecting forced labor. Join us in stopping it now. #BlackApple #AppleAgainstUyghurs
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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. @Twitter is actively allowing Chinese propaganda accounts to promote their content. #Xinjiang #UyghurGenocide #NeverAgain
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
3 years
The organs of religious minorities are being illegally harvested and sold on the black market by #CCP -led authorities
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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BREAKING: @FinancialTimes reports that 1000s of mosques in China have been altered or destroyed as Beijing’s suppression of Islam spreads to almost every region of the country.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
Many Uyghurs now live in Turkey, having fled persecution in China. We know Turkey have already extradited some Uyghurs via Tajikistan. @RTErdogan PLEASE don't ratify this deal. Uyghurs in Turkey need asylum, not extradition.
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Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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"What is happening in Xinjiang IS genocide. The status quo for determining genocide is NOT good enough. This is our chance to recognise genocide while it is happening..." @MarieRimmer #GenocideAmendment
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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“We are not going to be silenced by anyone.” Excellent speech by @DavidAltonHL tonight at Piccadilly Circus. #uyghur #Uyghurs #GenocideGames #Olympics
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
'A Foreign Office spokesman said: “Where we have concerns, we raise them and hold China to account. We have done this consistently over the treatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.” ' LIES. 1. Call it a #genocide 2. Support the #GenocideAmendment 3. Apply #MagnitskySanctions
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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UK Confucius Institutes may be in breach of law by accepting candidates whose political views and ethnicities were vetted in China
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
The government has constantly stated that only a court can decide on genocide, so let them. Please contact your MP and ask them to vote in support of the #GenocideAmendment
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
3 years
Our editor-in-chief @llggeorgia spoke with @FreedomDeclared ’s @jamesbundy about the UK government’s inaction on genocide in Xinjiang.
@FreedomDeclared
Freedom Declared Foundation
3 years
“If they are responding at all, it’s terribly” @llggeorgia discusses the UK Government’s response to the Uyghur Genocide. Our full conversation with Georgia can be viewed here 👇🏻
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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PLEASE SIGN 👇👇👇👇👇👇
@arisefdn
Arise
3 years
🚨 URGENT ACTION - Do you think it should be illegal for the NHS to buy equipment made by Uyghur slaves? The Genocide Amendment is fast approaching the @HouseofCommons ! Write to your MP to ask for their support (takes 1 minute) #UnmaskGenocide
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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These companies exploit the camps and the Uyghur Muslims who are being detained. Do you endorse these brands? ⁃Tag the brands that are named ⁃Boycott these companies ⁃Tag ethical brands as a replacement! #uyghur #humanrights #china #xinjiang #uyghurmuslims
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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“When will the Government get a grip on this issue, finally and definitely stand up for human rights and against crimes against humanity, and tell China that this is not acceptable and the governor of Xinjiang is not welcome here?” - @GwynneMP
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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. @TomTugendhat you have previously expressed your support for #Uyghurs . Will you uphold this and commit to standing up for Uyghurs and holding the #CCP accountable, if elected leader of the #Conservatives ? #conservativeleadership
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
3 years
•A man has exposed 18 detention centres and prisons in Beijing using a covert camera hidden in his backpack •Guan Guan, thought to be a Chinese activist studying in Taiwan, posted a 19-minute video on YouTube #Xinjiang #NeverAgainRightNow
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
4 years
New article by associate writer @llggeorgia . @vincecable ’s comments on China and its human rights abuses are at best tone- deaf and at worst apologist. When will the @LibDems and @EdwardJDavey be commenting on this? #ukpolitics #China #uyghur
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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"This is not anti China, it is anti-genocide." @MPIainDS #GenocideAmendment #UyghurGenocide
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
3 years
A UK-China trade deal would be a disastrous betrayal of human rights commitments. Cabinet ministers and all parliamentarians must do everything in their power to stop a deal from happening on their watch.
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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On #HolocaustMemorialDay   we honour the memories of the 6 million Jews murdered at by the Nazi regime and their collaborators, all victims of their persecution and the victims of subsequent genocides. #Neveragainrightnow
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Uyghur children are being taken from families and put into state run ‘orphanages’. Parents have spent years searching for their children. This is a disgrace. @BorisJohnson @DominicRaab you need to do something. #uyghur #UyghurGenocide #UyghurMuslims #china #HumanRight
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@Uyghur_Freedom
Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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Our Editor in Chief @llggeorgia wrote for @Newsweek on the pressing topic of CCP influence in academia. 👇👇
@llggeorgia
Georgia Leigha Gilholy
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I wrote for @Newsweek on a disturbing event at a top British university, in which distinguished panellists pushed the motion that "Chinese-style" governance could be adopted by other countries.
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Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
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PM Boris Johnson’s cowardly attitude toward the CCP once again unveiled in his interview with Bloomberg’s John Micklethwait released today.
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