The Travel Industry Is Normalizing Crimes Against Humanity

Between 2019 and 2020, for a paper on the role of tourism in the securitization of the Uyghur Region, I interviewed several Uyghurs, former tour guides in their homeland and now in exile. The above quote came from a tour guide with more than twenty years of experience and a former resident of Kashgar.

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Joint Statement to the 56th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

July 5, 2024 Below is a statement delivered by the International Service for Human Rights under Item 6: Interactive Dialogue on the adoption of China’s 4th Universal Periodic Review Mr. President, This is a joint statement, in solidarity with the victims of human rights violations committed by the Chinese government. Numerous UPR recommendations echo the…

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The Persecution of Uyghur Senior Citizens

April 30, 2024 A UHRP Insights column by Henryk Szadziewski, Director of Research, Uyghur Human Rights Project In February 2024, 96-year old Abidin Ayup died in prison. His body was not returned to his family. Instead, two days after his death, his remains were sent to Atush Police Department and then buried. Abidin was the…

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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…

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