Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization

Member News

• East Turkestan: Uyghur Exile Reportedly Sentenced to Jail

  According to reports, one of the twenty Uyghurs extradited to China from Cambodia in 2009, was sentenced to seventeen years imprisonment in a closed trial in autumn 2011. Relatives of the imprisoned

• Iraqi Turkmen: Government Plans Land Restoration Committee

  A committee is to be formed by the Iraqi government in a bid to restore lands confiscated from Iraqi Turkmen and Kurds in and around the city of Kirkuk. 

• Taiwan: Chen Expected to Be New Premier

  Alleged reports from officials of the Kuomintang, on 27 January 2012, have suggested that Deputy Premier, Sean Chen, will be named as the new premier of Taiwan. 

• Zanzibar: New Bill Passed to End Corruption

  Legislators in Zanzibar passed a bill, on 25 January 2012, which will establish the island’s first independent anti-corruption and economic crimes authority. 

• Ogoni: Leader Appeals to MOSOP to End Injustice

  Lucky Nle, the leader of an Ogoni community in Port Harcourt, has made a plea to the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) to find a peaceful solution to the problems of the people in the

• Nagalim: Peaceful Protest a Success

  A 36-hour protest has concluded in Dimapur, Nagaland, on the evening of 26 January 2012, without any incidence of violence. The peaceful bandh resulted in the closure of all shops and business in the