Weaponized Passports: the Crisis of Uyghur Statelessness
A crisis of statelessness is looming among Uyghurs overseas. The Chinese government is denying Uyghurs the renewal of their expiring passports at diplomatic missions. Chinese embassy officials tell Uyghurs that the only way to renew a passport is to return to China. Those Uyghurs who have returned to China have disappeared.
Local Residents in Danger of Starving in East Turkistan
The Uyghur Human Rights Project is deeply concerned by alarming new evidence that local residents are starving across the Uyghur homeland.
“Ideological Transformation”: Records of Mass Detention from Qaraqash, Hotan
A leaked document from Qaraqash provides documentary proof that people in East Turkistan are
detained or deemed suspicious for legitimate and reasonable actions verifying the claims of the
Uyghur diaspora and internment camp survivors.
Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines
The Chinese government’s current crackdown in the Uyghur region is aimed at eliminating Uyghur ethnocultural identity and assimilating them into an undifferentiated “Chinese” identity.
The 2022 Winter Olympics and Beijing’s Uyghur Policy: Sport in the Shadows of Concentration Camps
The 2022 Olympic Winter Games, if held in China, will boost exchanges and mutual understanding between the Chinese and other civilizations of the world, encourage more than 1.3 billion Chinese to engage in winter sports with interest and passion, and give them yet another opportunity to help advance the Olympic movement and promote the Olympic spirit.
Testimony of Nury Turkel at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Hearing
Congressional-Executive Commission on China Hearing: Forced Labor, Mass Internment, and Social Control in Xinjiang
Repression Across Borders: The CCP’s Illegal Harassment and Coercion of Uyghur Americans
The Chinese regime is implementing a systematic, ambitious, multi-year, well-resourced, relentless and cruel policy to inflict pain and suffering on Uyghurs abroad, preventing the Uyghur American community from enjoying their constitutionally protected rights and freedoms.
UHRP Presentation, Senate Human Rights Caucus
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”
Detained and Disappeared: Intellectuals Under Assault in the Uyghur Homeland
May 21, 2019 11:30 am ESTContact: Uyghur Human Rights Project +1 (202) 478 1920 Since April 2017, the Chinese government has interned, imprisoned, or forcibly disappeared at least 435 intellectuals…
Resisting Chinese Linguistic Imperialism: Abduweli Ayup and the Movement for Uyghur Mother Tongue-Based Education
A new special report published by the Uyghur Human Rights Project highlights the politically motivated linguicide of the Uyghur language
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Government Boarding Schools as a Tool of Genocide in the 21st Century
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