The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has released a new briefing highlighting calls by Uyghur Americans for the Chinese government to return their relatives’ passports and permit travel overseas for family reunifications in the United States.
Aug 3, 2020
New U.S. Global Magnitsky sanctions mean that the XPCC, at last, faces consequences for carrying out well-documented gross human rights violations.
Aug 3, 2020
On July 30th, this joint letter signed by 17 organizations was sent to 27 EU member states, and Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.
Jul 28, 2020
The Uyghur Human Rights Project has released a new report analyzing the Chinese government’s attempts to craft and promote a narrative responding to international criticism of its large-scale arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples.
Jul 27, 2020
On July 28, 2014, according to witnesses, Chinese security forces opened fire on peaceful Uyghur demonstrators, killing dozens and injuring hundreds more, in Elishqu Township in southern East Turkistan
Jul 23, 2020
Today, 72 Uyghur rights groups are joined by over 100 civil society organisations and labour unions from around the world in calling on apparel brands and retailers to stop using forced labour in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (“Uyghur Region”), known to local people as East Turkistan, and end their complicity in the Chinese government’s human rights abuses.
Recent Posts
US farm brand John Deere at forefront of surging cotton machinery sales to Xinjiang, as human rights sanctions loom
August 7, 2020
Sales of hi-tech US cotton-harvesting machinery to be used in Xinjiang rose by more than 4,000 per cent in April from a year earlier, a Post investigation shows
China needs an exit strategy from Xinjiang
August 7, 2020
Xi should release all Uighur Muslims, and pay compensation of up to $14,000 each. By Minxin Pei
Pro-Beijing influencers and their rose-tinted view of life in Xinjiang
August 7, 2020
A network of social media personalities cast doubt on Uyghur abuses in Xinjiang. By Isobel Cockerell
China's Genocide Machine in Xinjiang
August 7, 2020
Crimes against humanity that meet the UN definition of genocide are being inflicted by Chinese troops on their Turkic Uyghur minority in the so-called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. by Lawrence A. Franklin
China’s Human Rights Abuses Invite US Leadership
August 7, 2020
The oppression in Xinjiang is a test as to whether nations actually adhere to the principle of Responsibility to Protect. By Pierfilippo M. Natta
Uyghur Model ‘Disappears’ After Risking Punishment With Video of His Detention
August 7, 2020
The man’s uncle says he can no longer contact him or his aunt since the video was published online.
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Compiled by Professor Magnus Fiskesjö
August 6, 2020
“Never again” came sooner than expected. By Taryn Woody
August 3, 2020
The Uyghur Human Rights Project reveals new details on Beijing’s massive campaign to persuade the world that there is no persecution in Xinjiang. By Ruth Ingram
UHRP REPORT: “The Happiest Muslims in the World”: Disinformation, Propaganda, and the Uyghur Crisis
Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020
The Uyghur Human Rights Project has released a new report analyzing the Chinese government’s attempts to craft and promote a narrative responding to international criticism of its large-scale arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples.
UHRP REPORT—Kashgar Coerced: Forced Reconstruction, Exploitation, and Surveillance in the Cradle of Uyghur Culture
Jun 3, 2020
Jun 3, 2020
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has released a new report, Kashgar Coerced: Forced Reconstruction, Exploitation, and Surveillance in the Cradle of Uyghur Culture. The report documents the Chinese government’s campaign to stamp out tangible aspects of Uyghur culture, using the ancient city of Kashgar as the most emblematic case.
UHRP EXPLAINER: Uyghur activists ask world to #HearUyghurs
Apr 24, 2020
Apr 24, 2020
The #HearUyghurs Campaign: On April 17, Uyghur diaspora activist Arslan Hidayat launched a new social-media campaign with the hashtag #HearUyghurs. The campaign highlights the trauma experienced by the worldwide Uyghur diaspora.