Posts Tagged ‘Arbitrary Detention’
UHRP Joins 80 Human Rights Organizations Urging Government Action in Response to Intimidation of Hong Kong Activists
December 20, 2023 The following is a joint statement supported by the Uyghur Human Rights Project, along with 80 other civil society and human rights organizations, calling on governments to respond to the transnational repression and intimidation of Hong Kong activists. We, the undersigned, representing Hong Kong civil society and human rights organisations across the…
Read MoreNew UHRP Explainer Maps Police and Security Forces in the Uyghur Region
New research from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) maps Chinese state policing structures in East Turkistan, building a fuller picture of responsibility for ongoing atrocities. The Explainer, Policing East Turkistan: Mapping Police and Security Forces in the Uyghur Region, explains the role played by various police forces in implementing policies that amount to atrocity crimes.
Read MoreUHRP 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.
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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.
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