Letter to home secretary points out growing evidence of genocide against Uighur people in China. By JamieGrierson
News & Commentary
Aug 6, 2020
China is targeting religious minorities with advanced technological surveillance networks, according to experts speaking at the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) webinar hearing led by USCIRF Chair, Gayle Manchin, on July 22. By Kate Cvancara
Aug 6, 2020
In late June, findings from an investigation confirmed China’s compulsory sterilization of Uyghur women native to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwest China. By Philip Alexander
Aug 6, 2020
Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uighur Congress, told Ahval that China is trying to erase the Uighur people, that the international community, particularly Muslim states, had failed to adequately back Uighurs, and that Turkey should step forward and speak out against China, despite growing economic ties.
Aug 6, 2020
The Vice President of the Board of Deputies says references to the Holocaust in highlighting the plight of the Uighurs honours the memory of its victims. By Edwin Shuker
![Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, First Lady of the United States Melania Trump, and awardee Sayragul Sauytbay, an ethnic Kazakh from Xinjiang, pose for a photo, at the Department of State on March 4, 2020. [State Department photo by Freddie Everett/ Public Domain]](https://uhrp.org/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_related/public/field/image/614px-Secretary_Pompeo%2C_First_Lady_Melania_Trump%2C_and_Sayragul_Sauytbay_Pose_for_a_Photo_%2849619397002%29.jpg?itok=J_hi4QJu "Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, First Lady of the United States Melania Trump, and awardee Sayragul Sauytbay, an ethnic Kazakh from Xinjiang, pose for a photo, at the Department of State on March 4, 2020. [State Department photo by Freddie Everett/ Public Domain]")
Aug 6, 2020
The former Kazakh camp inmate Sayragul Sauytbay speaks out about the oppression of Muslim minorities in China — and has received death threats for doing so.
Aug 6, 2020
Merdan Ghappar’s texts and videos reveal shocking conditions in Xinjiang internment camps
Aug 6, 2020
“Never again” came sooner than expected. By Taryn Woody
Aug 5, 2020
Life in the big city can be hard for Chinese migrant workers, but in Urumqi, economic incentives give them more opportunities than they'd get elsewhere. Provided that they are ethnically Han, that is. By Darren Byler
Aug 5, 2020
Former inmates live with their families, but still undergo indoctrination and self-criticism sessions, sources say.
Pages
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Concerned? Learn what you can do.
Join the Mailing List
UYGHUR BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliography of select news reports & academic works
Compiled by Professor Magnus Fiskesjö
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.
UHRP REPORT: Weaponized Passports: The Crisis of Uyghur Statelessness
Apr 1, 2020
Apr 1, 2020
UHRP’s new report, “Weaponized Passports: The Crisis of Uyghur Statelessness,” documents an ongoing and worsening issue facing Uyghurs abroad, namely refusal to renew passports and denial of access to other documentation by the Chinese government.
UHRP BRIEFING: Local Residents in Danger of Starving in East Turkistan
Feb 26, 2020
Feb 26, 2020
The Uyghur Human Rights Project is deeply concerned by alarming new evidence that local residents are starving across the Uyghur homeland.
UHRP REPORT: “Ideological Transformation”: Records of Mass Detention from Qaraqash, Hotan
Feb 18, 2020
Feb 18, 2020
A new UHRP report analyzes a leaked document revealing ground-level implementation of the Chinese government’s mass detention program targeting Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples.