Posts Tagged ‘Deportation’
UHRP Welcomes UN Letter on Arbitrary Detention Cases in Thailand, Urges Immediate Resettlement
For immediate releaseApril 24, 2024, 2:00 p.m. EDTContact: Omer Kanat, +1 (202) 790-1795, Peter Irwin, +1 (646) 906-7722 The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) is calling on the Thai government to take steps to urgently resettle the group of Uyghurs who remain arbitrarily detained for over a decade, following a joint letter from UN experts…
Read MoreLearning From the Deportation and Imprisonment of Huseyin Celil, Uyghur-Canadian Imam
March 27, 2024 A UHRP Insights column by Henryk Szadziewski, Director of Research, Uyghur Human Rights Project Over eighteen years ago, Canadian citizen, imam, and Uyghur human rights activist, Huseyin Celil took a trip to Uzbekistan with his wife, Kamila Telendibayeva, to visit relatives. On March 27, 2006, Uzbek police arrested him. Canadian officials were…
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