Following the release of a UHRP briefing highlighting the risk of complicity faced by international travel companies offering organized tours to East Turkistan, Executive Director Omer Kanat sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to express concerns over tourism cooperation with the Chinese government.

The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) is calling on international travel companies to drop package tours to East Turkistan, following the release of a UHRP briefing highlighting their risk of complicity in an ongoing genocide.

New research from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) highlights the troubling industry of organized travel to the Uyghur region despite ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide. The briefing, Genocide Tours: International Travel Companies in East Turkistan, is the first on a series on the tourism industry in East Turkistan, also known as “Xinjiang.”