Uyghur actor Hoshur Seley wins China’s Golden Rooster Award for best supporting actor
NEW YORK — Uyghur actor Hoshur Seley, known to Uyghur audiences as Hoshur Qari, won best supporting actor at China’s
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He led the hunt for “two-faced people.” One hundred days later, he was dead
A leaked Urumqi police report records the suicide of a Uyghur college president in a single sentence, blames the detention of his sister, and files his death as a side effect of a campaign it calls a success. Közet reconstructed his last two years from China’s own documents.
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Thai rights groups urge government not to return two pardoned Uyghur men to China
Three Thai networks demand access to the men and resettlement in a third country, as a former MP says China asked for them in August and the National Security Council may meet next week.
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He was 14 when Thailand locked him up. Twelve years later, a pardon may deliver him to China
Two Uyghur men, one of them a boy at the time, were detained in Thailand in 2014 and have spent more than twelve years in Thai cells. Since their transfer to immigration custody, no lawyer has been allowed to see them. Six days after it, the Chinese ambassador met the official who will decide where they go next.
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Uyghur pop singer detained in 2018 resurfaces with a new music video and reissued songs
A music video promoted as a 2026 release shows Ablajan Awut Ayup and his dancers looking years younger, and appears to use footage shot in Shanghai shortly before he disappeared from public view. When he left custody, and on what terms, remains unconfirmed.
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Uyghur, Uighur, or Uygur? The three spellings of one name, and which one Közet uses
A note on the different English spellings of a Turkic ethnic group at the center of Közet’s coverage, and why
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