Encampments set up at pro-Palestinian protests were taken down at Yale University and the University of Connecticut on Tuesday morning and police made some.
Schools from across Connecticut gathered to hear directly from top public safety officials to help prevent hate on college campuses. It comes amid rising.
Two student organizations at the University of Connecticut, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Muslim Student Association (MSA), have received threatening messages over the course of the last two weeks. The discriminatory messages, posted on the organizations’ respective Instagram accounts, have received thousands of engagements and hundreds of comments in support of the…
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The University of Connecticut’s Muslim Student Association is hosting a virtual art show and contest Thursday evening to raise awareness about the plight of China’s Uighur population.
A recent report from the publication Foreign Policy found that over 1.5 million Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority, have been forced into so-called “re-education” camps in Northern China. The Chinese government is accused of subjecting interred Uighurs to forced sterilization, forced abortion and other atrocities. The report concluded that the humanitarian crisis meets the United Nations definition of genocide.
“They are being tortured quite gruesomely, women are being raped,” said Khaleel Rahman, a biological sciences major at UConn and one of the organizers of the event. “Children are being separated from their families. So, it’s this surreal, dystopian, modern-day holocaust. Millions of people are being stripped of their religion.