Jun 3, 2020 | UHRP Report

Kashgar Coerced: Forced Reconstruction, Exploitation, and Surveillance in the Cradle of Uyghur Culture

The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has released a new report, Kashgar Coerced: Forced Reconstruction, Exploitation, and Surveillance in the Cradle of Uyghur Culture.

Apr 24, 2020 | UHRP EXPLAINER

Uyghur activists ask world to #HearUyghurs

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.

Apr 1, 2020 | UHRP REPORT

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.

Feb 26, 2020 | uhrp briefing

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.

Feb 18, 2020 | UHRP REPORT

“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.

Oct 28, 2019 | UHRP Report

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.

Oct 21, 2019 | UHRP Report

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.

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…

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