I hate to poop on the Olympic parade, but the news that two Chinese pensioners have been sentenced to a year's ‘re-education through labour' for applying to demonstrate in one of the Beijing Olympics ‘protest pens' cannot go unremarked.
News & Commentary
Aug 20, 2008
At least eight American blogger-activists and several other foreigners have been detained in Beijing as the government intensifies a crackdown on pro-Tibetan protests in the home stretch of the Olympics, rights groups said on Wednesday.
Aug 20, 2008
“Just be patient for a month and a half, and we will know the exact date of building of the Por-Bazhyn fortress by dendrochronology – Tuvan scientist, Vladimir Petrukhin, a scientific worker from Institute of Slavic Studies, answered, when asked which was older, Kara-Bulgusun or Por-Bazhyn.
Aug 20, 2008
As police with riot clubs patrolled nearby, a merchant whispered that he feared a sweeping crackdown in China's northwestern Muslim region once the Olympic spotlight fades.
Aug 19, 2008
The Western press has been awash in coverage of all the negative aspects of China’s Games. There’s horrendous pollution in Beijing, which has forced entire teams to train off-shore in South Korea or Japan and wear masks for much of their stay
Aug 19, 2008
From the outset, Chinese authorities saw the Beijing Olympics as a chance to show the world a perfect, strong China.
Aug 19, 2008
Olympic fever that has swept most of China seems to have limited influence in Lanzhou, considered the geometrical centre of China.
Aug 19, 2008
A group of exiles from China's Muslim ethnic Uighur minority alleged Tuesday that police were planning to crack down on the Xinjiang region, where a series of attacks were carried out during the Olympic Games.
Aug 19, 2008
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia last week denied a request made by six ethnic Uighur Guantanamo detainees to be transferred to less restrictive facilities within the base.
Aug 18, 2008
The three Uighur airline pilots in the Chinese aviation fleet have been ordered from their cockpits by authorities anxious to maintain security during the Olympic Games.
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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.