The UHRP mailing list will provide subscribers with important news and updates regarding Uyghur-related human rights issues. This list will usually generate no more than
two emails per month. Click to join!
Human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International regularly express concern over the deteriorating human rights situation in East Turkistan. However, due to the Chinese authorities' tight controls on information, accurate and timely analysis of developments in East Turkistan is extremely difficult.
Human rights activists agree that without critical support from Uyghur-run human rights organizations, very little information from within East Turkistan will emerge.
Read More...
UHRP was established by the Uyghur American Association and is
dedicated to researching and exposing human rights abuses committed against
the Uyghur people in East Turkistan.
The Rafto Foundation calls on the Norwegian MFA to raise the issue of Uyghur asylum seekers sentenced to life in prison and long prison terms in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China.
A countywide middle school consolidation in China’s volatile Xinjiang region has led to ethnic Uyghur students dropping out of classes as local authorities move to implement a bilingual education system based on the Uyghur and the official Mandarin Chinese languages.
An exile Uyghur group has slammed recent moves by the Chinese government to boost police numbers in rural areas of the troubled Xinjiang region, which has been rocked by ethnic strife in recent years between Turkic-speaking Muslims and Han Chinese migrants.
China will boost police forces in its western Xinjiang region, state media said on Monday, in an effort to tackle unsanctioned religious activities in the region, which has been beset by ethnic strife and sometimes violent unrest.
The United States is attempting to confirm recent media reports that as many as four of the 20 ethnic Uighur asylum seekers deported from Cambodia to China in 2009 have been sentenced to life in prison.
(Page 1 of 748) « Back | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next »
A countywide middle school consolidation in China’s volatile Xinjiang region has led to ethnic Uyghur students dropping out of classes as local authorities move to implement a bilingual education system based on the Uyghur and the official Mandarin Chinese languages.