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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.
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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.
Five Chinese Muslims recently released from the Guantanamo Bay prison are living under increasingly dangerous conditions in Albania, the only country to let them in after the United States determined they were not 'enemy combatants," according to their lawyer.
Five Chinese passport-holders, all Muslim Uyghurs cleared of terrorism charges and just released after five years in the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, are trying to adjust to new lives in Albania, the only country to offer them asylum.
Recently, bad news for Uyghurs came from the heartland of Central Eurasia. The Uzbek authorities agreed to Chinese demands to further clamp down on any activity of Uyghurs in Uzbekistan that has a flavor of supporting and advocating human rights and greater political as well as cultural rights for the Uyghurs in East Turkistan (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region).
