China is building a luxury hotel on the site of a mosque in Xinjiang

April 19, 2025 | Utusan Malaysia

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Nearly 200 international hotels are now operating or planning to open in Xinjiang, despite human rights groups urging global companies not to be complicit in the Chinese government’s human rights abuses in the region. A report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) identified 115 hotels that are currently operating and are said to be ‘benefiting from a presence in the Uyghur region’. At least 74 more are in various stages of construction or planning, the report said. In 2023, The Guardian reported that several tour operators were advertising holiday packages to Xinjiang, and now hotel companies […]

Cited: UHRP Report by Peter Irwin, Henryk Szadziewski, Ben Carrdus, and an anonymous researcher—It Does Matter Where You Stay: International Hotel Chains in East Turkistan.

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