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Why is there a need for UHRP?
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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 Many Uyghurs have fled East Turkistan to neighboring countries in order to escape persecution and in the hope of exercising fundamental human rights denied to them under Chinese rule, including freedom of religious belief and freedom of expression. However, since September 11, 2001, the Chinese authorities increasingly brand anyone fleeing East Turkistan as likely to be either a “terrorist” or “separatist”, or a religious “extremist”. The Chinese authorities have applied increasing pressure on neighboring governments to return these refugees to China, where they face imprisonment, torture, and even execution following trials which fall far short of international fair trial standards. Although most of the states bordering East Turkistan are not party to the 1951 Refugee Convention, these acts of “refoulement” are nevertheless at odds with international customary law, as well as being in contravention of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
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IRIN: Central Asia: Weekly News Wrap
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...Bishkek on Tuesday was reportedly embroiled in a fresh spat with that country's Uighur Muslims, who trace their roots to neighbouring western China, after ordering the cancellation of a Uighur congress at a state opera theatre...
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Kazakhstan Reveals Uyghur Extraditions
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A top Kazakh security official today said that Kazakhstan has extradited 14 Uyghurs to China and Kyrgyzstan in the past six years for alleged extremist activities.
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Australian Government Fails to Protect Uyghur-Australian From Persecution
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Australian Government under fire after Australian found guilty on terrorism charges in Kazakhstan
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Disappearing Diaspora in Uzbekistan
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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).
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