{"id":103485,"date":"2019-07-27T02:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/27\/the-world-knows-what-is-happening-to-the-uighurs-why-has-it-been-so-slow-to-act\/"},"modified":"2019-07-27T02:00:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T00:00:29","slug":"the-world-knows-what-is-happening-to-the-uighurs-why-has-it-been-so-slow-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=103485","title":{"rendered":"The world knows what is happening to the Uighurs. Why has it been so slow to act?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reluctance to offend China and an information blackout has meant the persecution of the ethnic minority has gone under the radar. But pressure for change is building On Wednesday, Sadam Abdusalam went to Australia\u2019s federal Parliament House for the first time and spent almost 12 hours meeting politicians \u2013 meetings he has spent almost two years hoping for \u2013 in which he pleaded for their help to bring his wife and nearly two-year-old son home.Last week Abdusalam\u2019s story was broadcast on Four Corners, detailing how his wife and son are trapped in China because they are Uighurs \u2013 ethnic minority Muslims. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/27\/the-world-knows-what-is-happening-to-the-uighurs-why-has-it-been-so-slow-to-act\" target=\"_blank\">The world knows what is happening to the Uighurs. Why has it been so slow to act?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reluctance to offend China and an information blackout has meant the persecution of the ethnic minority has gone under the radar. But pressure for change is building On Wednesday, Sadam Abdusalam went to Australia\u2019s federal Parliament House for the first time and spent almost 12 hours meeting politicians \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}