Uyghur and Tibetan exiles, Hong Kong students and their supporters gathered in their hundreds in front of the Chinese Embassy in London to denounce the CCP.
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Jan 22, 2020
Three siblings in camps and nobody to care for their elderly mother
Jan 22, 2020
Satellite images and clandestine video footage of watchtowers, concrete barracks and barbed-wire perimeters conform to the prison aesthetic described by Jewish Holocaust survivors.
Jan 22, 2020
Uyghur Activist Rushan Abbas says "the Chinese government uses every opportunity to suppress Uyghur people". Ms Abbas claimed as many as three million of the Chinese ethnic ...
Jan 22, 2020
Although they should spend time in jail, Tilek Tabarak and the Musakhan-Alimuly duo will remain in Kazakhstan, thanks to international support.
Jan 22, 2020
Abidin Ayup was arrested in 2017 for ‘extremism,’ his US-based niece recently learned.
Jan 21, 2020
Aydidar Kahar tucks her long hair behind her ear and smiles at the camera.
Jan 21, 2020
Chinese authorities are continuing to detain foreign nationals of Uighur descent, which experts charge is part of an effort by Beijing to prevent any outside access to Xinjiang province.
Jan 21, 2020
Facing monumental challenges, the volunteers of Atajurt have dedicated themselves to advocating for those detained in Xinjiang.
Jan 21, 2020
A scholar discusses forced labor in global chains, and the Chinese government’s collective punishment of the Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang.
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UYGHUR BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliography of select news reports & academic works
Compiled by Professor Magnus Fiskesjö
UHRP BRIEFING: The “laboratory of repression” in East Turkistan: the action agenda | Remarks by Omer Kanat
Dec 13, 2019
Dec 13, 2019
The “laboratory of repression” in East Turkistan demands action by a long list of institutions. Universities, hospitals, and medical companies cannot claim ignorance. The cotton industry and tech companies are on notice. The World Bank and the Olympics are in the hot seat for complicity. History is watching. The lesson is very simple: business as usual must not continue.
UHRP REPORT: Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines
Oct 28, 2019
Oct 28, 2019
A new report presents evidence of the complete or partial destruction of over 100 mosques by the Chinese government. Researcher Bahram Sintash and the Uyghur Human Rights Project cross-reference satellite imagery, photographs, and witness testimony to document the Chinese government’s campaign to wipe out the physical sites of Uyghur Islamic practice.
UHRP BRIEFING: The 2022 Winter Olympics and Beijing’s Uyghur Policy: Sports in the Shadows of Concentration Camps
Oct 21, 2019
Oct 21, 2019
In 2015, Beijing was awarded the rights to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. While the government of the People’s Republic of China has overseen preparations for the 2022 Games under the motto of “joyful rendezvous upon pure ice and snow,” the same state has also overseen the development of a network of concentration camps in East Turkestan (also known as Xinjiang).
UHRP BRIEFING: Testimony of Nury Turkel at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Hearing
Oct 17, 2019
Oct 17, 2019
Congressional-Executive Commission on China Hearing: Forced Labor, Mass Internment, and Social Control in Xinjiang
UHRP REPORT: Repression Across Borders: The CCP’s Illegal Harassment and Coercion of Uyghur Americans
Aug 28, 2019
Aug 28, 2019
UHRP calls for greater protection of Uyghur Americans against Chinese state harassment.
UHRP BRIEFING: UHRP Presentation, Senate Human Rights Caucus
Jul 29, 2019
Jul 29, 2019
Presentation by UHRP Director Omer Kanat at the July 24, 2019 U.S. Senate Human Rights Caucus Briefing "Religious Freedom in China: Assessing the Role of Surveillance Technology in Abuses Against the Uyghurs and Across China"