Aug 28, 2019 | UHRP Report

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.

Jul 29, 2019 | UHRP BRIEFING

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”

May 21, 2019 | UHRP UPDATED REPORT

Detained and Disappeared: Intellectuals Under Assault in the Uyghur Homeland

An updated Uyghur Human Rights Project report by Henryk Szadziewski Since April 2017, the Chinese government has interned, imprisoned, or forcibly disappeared at least 435 intellectuals as part of its intensified…

May 16, 2019 | UHRP REPORT

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

Mar 25, 2019 | UHRP Report

Detained and Disappeared: Intellectuals Under Assault in the Uyghur Home Land

Since early 2017, the Chinese government has conducted a massive policy of disappearance, massinternment, and imprisonment of Uyghur people.

Jan 28, 2019 | UHRP Report

The Persecution of the Intellectuals in the Uyghur Region Continues

Since April 2017, the Chinese government has interned, imprisoned, or forcibly disappeared at least 338 intellectuals as part of its intensified assault on Uyghurs and extermination of their culture in East Turkestan.

Jan 26, 2019 | UHRP EXPLAINER

Cultural Destruction in East Turkestan

The Chinese government has been demolishing Uyghur neighborhoods across East Turkestan, for more than a decade. This has resulted in the loss of physical structures, including Uyghur homes, shops, and religious sites. Uyghurs have been forcibly relocated to heavily monitored apartment blocks.

Jan 26, 2019 | UHRP EXPLAINER

Religious Repression of the Uyghurs

Religious expression is one of the primary reasons the government is sending people to the expanding network of internment camps across East Turkestan (aka Xinjiang). There are reports of people being sent to the camps for having attended a wedding or funeral where a religious passage was read.

Jan 26, 2019 | UHRP EXPLAINER

Concentration Camps in China for Uyghurs and Other Turkic Muslims

The massive scale and sudden establishment of the concentration camp system in East Turkestan is unprecedented. According to US government estimates, there are a minimum of 800,000 and possibly over 2 million people currently detained. This is up to 20 percent of the Uyghur population.

Jan 7, 2019 | UHRP EXPLAINER

Assault on the Uyghur Language in East Turkestan

Chinese government officials have emphasized Mandarin language ability as a marker of modernity and, more recently, a necessity in the fight against “terrorism.”

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“We know you better than you know yourself”: China’s transnational repression of the Uyghur diaspora

Watch the UHRP co-sponsored event featuring the presentation of a new report by Dr. David Tobin and Nyrola Elimä on transnational repression.

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