US lawmakers nominate Uyghur rights groups for Nobel Peace Prize

February 4, 2022

Two U.S. lawmakers nominated two Uyghur rights organizations for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize in a rebuke to China just as the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics got underway.

Reps. Tom Suozzi of New York and Chris Smith of New Jersey, co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Uyghur Caucus, wrote a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee saying that the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and Campaign for Uyghurs, both based in Washington, D.C., have brought attention to the Chinese government’s abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in Xinjiang.

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