Qedriye Ghopur, a young Uyghur fashion designer who lives in Norway, is trying to spread Uyghur culture through a fashion brand called Føniks (Phoenix) that features etles-style clothing and jewelry. Etles, a Central Asian fabric and design that is known in English as ikat, became popular globally about a decade ago, but not without criticism
2 female members of a prolonged Muslim Uyghur family serving long jail sentences for committing spiritual “crimes” are believed to be kept in a ladiess jail in the town of Sanji (in Chinese, Changji) in Chinas far-western Xinjiang region. Furthermore, two male members of an in-law and the family are likewise serving life terms, the
A court in Xinjiang sentenced 5 Muslim Uyghur females from one family to prolonged jail terms for “prohibited” religious activities, according to a copy of the 2019 verdict recently gotten by RFA. The ladies– an elderly mother, her three daughters, and her daughter-in-law– got prison terms of in between 7 and 20 years, according to
