Letter backs researcher's proposal on Xinjiang

11 institutes send support to scholar cyberbullied for intended field study

Eleven Chinese research institutions said in a joint open letter on Tuesday that they are willing to collaborate with researchers focusing on Xinjiang around the world to promote academic research on Xinjiang-related issues.

The open letter came after an Australia-based independent scholar Maureen Huebel was subjected to cyberbullying by anti-China forces since expressing her research plan on Xinjiang recently.

These institutions, from various regions of China and having long been committed to researching Xinjiang-related issues, said that they are willing to share the vast amount of objective information and research results they have accumulated over the years in fields such as history, security, law, politics and ethnicity.