{"id":955,"date":"2020-07-01T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/?p=955"},"modified":"2021-02-08T00:33:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T00:33:07","slug":"uighurs-in-china-i-didnt-even-know-if-my-mum-was-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/uighurs-in-china-i-didnt-even-know-if-my-mum-was-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Uighurs in China: &#8216;I didn&#8217;t even know if my mum was alive&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"BBC London (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-england-london-51532812\/uighurs-in-china-i-didn-t-even-know-if-my-mum-was-alive\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">BBC London<\/span><\/a> 18 Feb 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Uighurs in China: &#039;I didn&#039;t even know if my mum was alive&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jqsm5AoRV2U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aziz Isa Elkun is one of many Uighur Muslims living in London who have been cut off from contacting their families based in Xinjiang.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2016, China has detained more than one million Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang in what they call &#8220;educational centres&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, documents seen by the BBC show that these camps use violence and torture to drive Uighurs away from their Islamic beliefs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aziz has several family members in the camps. He wants to be a voice for the Uighur community in the UK and is now calling on the UK Foreign Office to help them find out if their families are alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Reporter and producer: Gem O&#8217;Reilly; Filmed and edited by Cristian Mantio<\/em><br><br><strong>Source:<\/strong> BBC London<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-england-london-51532812\/uighurs-in-china-i-didn-t-even-know-if-my-mum-was-alive\n (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-england-london-51532812\/uighurs-in-china-i-didn-t-even-know-if-my-mum-was-alive\" target=\"_blank\">ht<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">tps:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-england-london-51532812\/uighurs-in-china-i-didn-t-even-know-if-my-mum-was-alive<\/span><\/a><br>____________________________________<br>Published on Elkun website, link: <br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/uighurs-in-china-i-didnt-even-know-if-my-mum-was-alive\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/uighurs-in-china-i-didnt-even-know-if-my-mum-was-alive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.azizisa.org\/en\/uighurs-in-china-i-didnt-even-know-if-my-mum-was-alive<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC London 18 Feb 2020 Aziz Isa Elkun is one of many Uighur Muslims living in London who have been cut off from contacting their families based in Xinjiang.&nbsp; Since 2016, China has detained more than one million Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang in what they call &#8220;educational centres&#8221;. However, documents seen by the BBC show<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/uighurs-in-china-i-didnt-even-know-if-my-mum-was-alive\/\" title=\"Read Uighurs in China: &#8216;I didn&#8217;t even know if my mum was alive&#8217;\">Read more&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,134,153,137,136],"tags":[138,139,141],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aziz-isa-elkun","category-elkun-on-media","category-elkun-videos","category-elkuns-campaign","category-news","tag-bbc-london","tag-uighurs-in-china","tag-uyghurs-in-east-turkistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}