TOKYO: Tokyo has issued an entry visa to Rebiya Kadeer in readiness for next week’s World Uyghur Congress, a Japan-based Uighur organisation said Friday, provoking the ire of Beijing. “The visa was issued early on Friday,” said a member of ...

Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer has received a visa from Japan to attend the World Uyighur Congress, which starts on Monday May 14th. The article below is published by World Uyger Congress: TOKYO — Tokyo has issued an entry visa to Rebiya Kadeer ...

TOKYO - Around 200 ethnic Uighurs from around the world gathered in Japan Monday for a five-day meeting to press their case for independence from China. Many Uighurs complain that they are the victims of state-sanctioned persecution and marginalisation in ...

The President of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) Rebiya Kadeer has met with survivors of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011 to express her condolences on the loss of life they suffered. Below is a press release issued by ...

Japan has issued an entry visa to exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer despite a Chinese request not to do so, sources said Friday. Kadeer is scheduled to arrive in Japan on Sunday to attend the World Uighur Congress' general assembly, the sources said.

The exiled head of the World Uyghur Congress, Rebiya Kadeer told those assembled that Beijing's policy of "forcible assimilation" was unacceptable in a modern democracy. "The Chinese government says it is assimilating and eventually eliminating the Uighur ...

Beijing on Monday lodged strong protest over Tokyo's permission for the separatist World Uygur Congress meeting to be held in Japan, and slammed Uygur separatist Rebiya Kadeer's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine. Analysts warned that Japan's current attitude ...

The four-day meeting of the Munich-based organization is taking place despite Chinese opposition to Japan's issuing of an entry visa to its exiled leader, Rebiya Kadeer, who arrived Sunday for the session. China sees the congress as a separatist ...

Uighur human-rights activist Rabiya Kadeer, and others—to travel to into exile in the U.S. as a way of ridding China of so-called troublemakers. Beijing counts on exiled dissidents to become increasingly marginalized as their ties to China grow stale.

During the assembly, representatives discussed strategies for promoting Uyghur human rights internationally and re-elected as president Rebiya Kadeer, a former businesswoman who fled China in 2005. “Under my leadership, the WUC will continue to use ...