Posts Tagged ‘Religious Freedom’
Learning 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…
Read MoreUHRP submits statement on issues facing Uyghur refugees to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
For immediate releaseFebruary 12, 2021 4:45 pm EDTContact: +1.571.882.4825, +1.202.790.1795 On February 10, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom held a hearing on Refugees Fleeing Religious Persecution, focusing on how “the U.S. government can better protect and support individuals fleeing religious persecution through the U.S. refugee resettlement program, the U.S. asylum system, and overseas assistance.” UHRP submitted…
Read MoreNury Turkel Speaks at the International Religious Freedom Roundtable
July 23, 2018 On July 23rd, the International Religious Freedom Roundtable held an event on Capitol Hill highlighting the deteriorating situation facing religious believers in China entitled “Religious Persecution in China.” Co-sponsored by UHRP it was among the events held on the sidelines of the State Department’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, which took place…
Read MoreNury Turkel Speaks at the International Religious Freedom Roundtable
August 13, 2018 On July 23rd, the International Religious Freedom Roundtable held an event on Capitol Hill highlighting the deteriorating situation facing religious believers in China entitled “Religious Persecution in China.” Co-sponsored by UHRP, it was among the events held on the sidelines of the State Department’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, which took place…
Read MoreUHRP Event on February 26th: Uyghur Religious Freedom and Cultural Values Under Siege
February 27, 2018 On Monday, February 26th, the Uyghur Human Rights Project in co-operation with the Unrepresented Nations and People’s Organization, the Uyghur American Association and the World Uyghur Congress, held a conference at the U.S. House of Representatives entitled “Uyghur Religious Freedom and Cultural Values Under Siege.” Professor Sean Roberts of George Washington University…
Read MoreWatch Zubayra Shamseden Speak on Uyghur Rights on DRL’s “Religious Freedom and Empowering Civil Society” Panel
March 29, 2018 On January 30th UHRP’s Chinese Outreach Coordinator Zubayra Shamseden was invited by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor to speak on a panel on religious freedom. This series of panels was held in honor of National Religious Freedom Day on January 16th, the day the Virginia General…
Read MoreForbidding Children from Participating in Religion is Nothing New in East Turkestan
October 18, 2016 Last week the government of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region announced a new education law that will come into force on November first in the region’s state media (for full Chinese text, see here). The most widely reported aspect of the new law was the provision that parents and guardians are forbidden…
Read MorePropaganda aimed overseas is not a guarantee of religious freedom for Uyghurs
July 11, 2016 By Greg Fay In the run up to Ramadan 2016, the Chinese government and state media put considerable effort into convincing the world that the religious freedom of Uyghurs is respected. On June 2, three days before the beginning of Ramadan, the State Council Information Office issued a white paper titled Freedom…
Read MoreWitness Testimony: Religious crackdown in Urumchi
May 14, 2015 The following incident took place in May, 2014 in Urumchi, several months before a new law enacted by the municipal government in 2015 banned full face veils for women in the city. The author, a young Uyghur male, was in high school when the incident occurred. Identifying details have been changed to…
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