{"id":7043,"date":"2026-07-20T21:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/?p=7043"},"modified":"2026-07-20T21:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:04:39","slug":"uzdm-president-spoke-during-the-un-expert-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/uzdm-president-spoke-during-the-un-expert-mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"UZDM President spoke during the UN Expert Mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">During the 19th Session of the UN Expert Mechanism, UZDM President <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1wvb978 r-1loqt21\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/Dolkun Isa: \u201cIn 2017, I was arrested in front of the Italian Senate while trying to attend a press conference. Today, after eight years, I returned to the same Senate \u2013 for a meaningful meeting with Senator Giulio Terzi, during which I presented the report of the Uyghur Tribunal as well as the Italian edition of my book.\u201d\/\">Dolkun_Isa <\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">delivered a statement warning that China\u2019s new Ethnic Unity and Progress Law institutionalizes forced assimilation of <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Uyghurs?src=hashtag_click\">#Uyghurs<\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">, Tibetans, and other non-Han peoples. He stressed that the law legitimizes policies that threaten language, culture, religion, and identity, and called on the UN to examine its compatibility with international human rights standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch the full speech <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UZDM_eV\/status\/2077438977838301271?s=20\">here<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 19th Session of the UN Expert Mechanism, UZDM President Dolkun_Isa delivered a statement warning that China\u2019s new Ethnic Unity and Progress Law institutionalizes forced assimilation of #Uyghurs, Tibetans, and other non-Han peoples. He stressed that the law legitimizes policies that threaten language, culture, religion, and identity, and called on the UN to examine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200153440,"featured_media":7045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47664252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbKm7C-1PB","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uzdm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-20-at-9.04.19-PM.png?fit=882%2C412&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200153440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7046,"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions\/7046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzdm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}