Posts Tagged ‘Arbitrary Detention’
UHRP Calls for Accountability One Year After Ürümchi Fire
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.
Read MoreUHRP Appalled by News of Life Sentence for Professor Rahile Dawut
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.
Read MoreChina: Release Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng and End the Practice of Enforced Disappearances
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.
Read MoreIlham
I came to know Ilham Tohti when he read my book “My West, Your East” (《我的西域，你的东土》) and took the initiative to ask me for a meeting.
Read MoreUHRP Calls for Accountability for the 2014 Mass Killing of Uyghurs in Elishqu, Yarkand
On July 28, 2014, according to witnesses, Chinese security forces opened fire on peaceful Uyghur demonstrators, killing dozens and injuring hundreds more, in Elishqu Township, Yarkand, in southern East Turkistan. Nine years later, the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) calls for accountability.
Read More“709 Crackdown 2.0” Global Call Against China’s Renewed Crackdown On Human Rights Lawyers
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’.
Read MoreWUC and UHRP Grieved by Death of Uyghur Refugee in Detention Center in Thailand
The World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur Human Rights Project have received news that Mr. Mattohti Mattursun (Muhammad Tursun), an Uyghur refugee who had been in Thai detention since March 13, 2014, passed away on Friday. He was 40 years old and died of suspected liver failure. His family’s whereabouts are unknown.
Read MoreA Conversation With Ilham Tohti: Reflections on the 9th Anniversary of His Detention
People are forgetting him, myself included, as prolonged silence does to our memory and short attention spans. Beijing is counting on our forgetfulness. Never mind that, by China’s law, he should be receiving one family visit a month.
Read MoreCovert Concentration Camps
“Several days after the July 5th Uyghur Massacre in Urumchi, Chinese police swarmed my uncle, put black bags over his head, and dragged him away to prison.”
Read MoreMainstreaming Stories: A Day of Solidarity with Uyghurs
April 24, 2019 Henryk Szadziewski, Senior Researcher, Uyghur Human Rights Project The accounts of the ‘re-education’ regime that people are undergoing in those camps are harrowing…I imagine my lovely, principled, dedicated colleague there, and I feel incredibly angry. Dr. Rachel Harris, University of London The disappearance of Dr. Rahile Dawut, a leading expert on Uyghur…
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