Human rights groups that expose China’s abuse of Uyghurs nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

February 3, 2022

As the 2022 Winter Olympics get underway in Beijing, a pair of House lawmakers are jointly nominating the Uyghur Human Rights Project  (UHRP) and the Campaign for Uyghurs to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their work exposing ongoing atrocities committed by the Chinese government.

In a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) — who co-chair the bipartisan Congressional Uyghur Caucus — wrote that both groups have raised critical awareness of abuses against Uyghurs and other minority groups by Beijing in the northwestern province of Xinjiang.

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