THE NEW SHERIFF in town at the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, has already set a different tone by firing officials responsible for the Walter Reed scandal. But there is a Walter Reed-style scandal of human rights abuses now festering at the Guantanamo detention center in Cuba that becomes his responsibility the longer it continues under his watch. Gates can begin the process of restoring the United States' reputation as a respecter of human rights by releasing 17 Guantanamo detainees from China.
A handwritten poster that the Chinese authorities designated “separatist when it appeared in a remote town in the northwestern Uyghur region of Xinjiang has led to wave of arrests, interrogations, and fines for local people over the past three-and-a-half years, including the detention of two high school students.
The lure of "home'' is powerful. But a Canadian passport is no guarantee that citizens won't come to grief when they venture into perilous realms. This is self-evidently true for naturalized Canadians who have previously fled from those areas, precisely because they believed themselves at risk of persecution and prosecution. 
维吾尔人权项目即将发布：维吾尔人的疆土，中国的边疆：新疆工作会议及中央政府指导下的发展为题的中文报告。该报告英文版发布于2012年6月；本报告检审始自2010年新疆工作会的，由中国中央政府指导下在东突厥斯坦实施的史无前例的投资发展政策及其后果。
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Briefing: Refusals of passports to Uyghurs and confiscations of passports held by Uyghurs indicator of second-class status in China
Feb 7, 2013
Feb 7, 2013
The Uyghur American Association (UAA) calls on the Chinese government to immediately halt all discriminatory practices regarding the issuance of passports to Uyghurs.
你能倾听我们吗？来自2009年乌鲁木齐骚乱的呼声
Jul 5, 2012
Jul 5, 2012
维吾尔人权项目（UHRP）发布有关2009年乌鲁木齐和平示威引发民族冲突报告中文版, “你能倾听我们吗？来自2009年乌鲁木齐骚乱的呼声”
Uyghur Homeland, Chinese Frontier: The Xinjiang Work Forum and Centrally Led Development
Jun 27, 2012
Jun 27, 2012
A new 37-page report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) examines the effects of the Xinjiang Work Forum, held in May 2010, which heralded an unprecedented state-led development push in East Turkestan.
Living on the Margins: The Chinese State’s Demolition of Uyghur Communities
Apr 2, 2012
Apr 2, 2012
A new 89-page report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) documents the Chinese state’s top-down destruction of Uyghur communities in Kashgar and throughout East Turkestan, in a targeted and highly politicized push that Chinese officials have accelerated in the wake of turbulent unrest in the region in 2009.