Arbitrary Detention Archives - Uyghur Human Rights Project

On the one year anniversary of the Ürümchi fire, the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) calls for accountability for the deaths of dozens of Uyghurs, and for the release of those detained for participation in the “White Paper” protests that followed.

The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) is appalled to learn that Professor Rahile Dawut, a highly respected Uyghur anthropologist, was handed a life sentence by the Chinese authorities in 2018.

Gao Zhisheng was one of the first human rights lawyers to emerge in the early 2000s and he became an important leader of China’s rights defense movement.

Today, we mark China Human Rights Lawyers Day, in remembrance of the Chinese government’s roundup of over 300 human rights lawyers and legal assistants in the days following July 9, 2015, in what is known as the ‘709 crackdown’.