A new investigative report explores China's surveillance program targeting Uighurs, a Muslim minority group living in the Xinjiang province.
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Jul 12, 2018
In March, China watchers riveted their attention on amendments to the constitution, especially the one that lifted term limits for the presidency, to see if Xi Jinping would be made president for life. But there were other amendments that attracted little, if any, attention.
Jul 11, 2018
The World Cup in Russia has received attention all around the world. But one immigrant community has had its attention on a different soccer event.
Jul 10, 2018
Thousands in Xinjiang placed in de facto orphanages after parents detained
Jul 10, 2018
During the most recent session of the UN’s Committee on NGOs, China attempted unsuccessfully to have the Committee withdraw the NGO consultative status of the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) in connection with its support of Dolkun Isa, a human rights activist, German citizen, and president of the World Uyghur Congress.
Jul 9, 2018
Many nights in the past few months, Shawn Zhang has come home from work at a student legal-aid program and pulled up satellite imagery of a place 10,000 kilometres away.
Jul 9, 2018
O.’s son was sent to have been opening by the dozen all over Xinjiang, but although those inside are taught Chinese language and Communist Party propaganda, they are more like secret internment camps than places of learning.
Jul 9, 2018
Guligeina Tashimaimaiti, a Uighur Ph.D. student, writer and scholar returned from a trip to Malaysia on December 26, 2017 and her family has not seen nor heard from her since. CCS has written the Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region requesting her release and her safety.
Jul 9, 2018
Amnesty International submits this document in advance of consideration by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of China’s periodic reports on the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in August 2018.
Jul 5, 2018
Klang MP says the Uighurs are at risk of persecution, life imprisonment, and torture if returned to China.
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Extracting Cultural Resources: the Exploitation and Criminalization of Uyghur Cultural Heritage
Jun 12, 2018
Jun 12, 2018
For immediate Release
June 12, 2018, 11:00 am EST
Contact: Uyghur Human Rights Project +1 (202) 478 1920
Briefing: Chinese Government Accelerates Assimilative Policies in “Sinicization of Religion” Campaign
May 9, 2018
May 9, 2018
For immediate release
May 9, 2018 1:00 pm EST
Contact: Uyghur Human Rights Project +1 (202) 478 1920
UHRP releases new report- ‘The Bingtuan: China’s Paramilitary Colonizing Force in East Turkestan’
Apr 26, 2018
Apr 26, 2018
For immediate Release
April 26, 2018, 10:45 am EST
Contact: Uyghur Human Rights Project +1 (202) 478 1920
The Fifth Poison: the Harassment of Uyghurs Overseas
Nov 28, 2017
Nov 28, 2017
The Chinese authorities’ recent coercion of Uyghur students studying abroad to return home has drawn international attention to the government’s campaign of harassment and control of Uyghurs living outside of China.
Simulated Autonomy: Uyghur Underrepresentation in Political Office
Oct 30, 2017
Oct 30, 2017
A new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) examines the demographics of political office holders in East Turkestan and finds significant underrepresentation of Uyghurs.
BRIEFING: The Chinese Government’s Misleading White Paper on the Human Rights Situation in East Turkestan
Jul 6, 2017
Jul 6, 2017
For immediate release
July 6, 2017 2:35 pm EST
Contact: Uyghur Human Rights Project +1 (202) 478 1920