Posts Tagged ‘UHRP Insights’
How a Casual Online Booking Can Link You, Click by Click, to Repression in East Turkistan
November 4, 2025 A UHRP Insights column by Dr. Henryk Szadziewski, Director of Research, and Peter Irwin, Associate Director for Research and Advocacy Open your browser, go to Booking.com, and search for a hotel in “Xinjiang.” Within seconds, major international hotel brands populate the screen: Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott, Wyndham, InterContinental (IHG), and Accor. Now try the same…
Read MoreWhat to See When Traveling Through a Genocide: Travel Guidebooks and the Uyghur Region
The phrasing obscures much about what has happened in the region since the last one was published in May 2022.
Read MoreForced Allegiance: Reflections on Flag-raising Ceremonies and National Anthems in Britain and East Turkistan
A UHRP Insights column by Dr. Henryk Szadziewski, Director of Research, Uyghur Human Rights Project
Read MoreUyghur Deportations from Thailand Part of a Decade of Betrayal
On July 8, 2015, Thai authorities shackled and hooded at least 109 Uyghur men then placed them on a plane bound for China. Chinese state media released footage showing the men, blindfolded and restrained, surrounded by armed police.
Read MorePrinceton University Press’ Trip into Chinese State Propaganda Erasing Atrocities, and How They Can Support Uyghur Intellectuals
In June 2025, a group of Princeton University Press (PUP) representatives participated in a state-arranged visit to the Uyghur Region. PUP claimed the intention of the trip was to build “inclusive cross-cultural interactions.”
Read MoreMy Father’s Doppa: In Honor of Uyghur Doppa Day, May 5
May 2, 2025 A UHRP Insights column by Rafael Kokbore In 2003, when I was 11 years old, my father was forced to flee overseas due to political persecution by the Chinese government. After that, my mother and I were dependent on each other, living in depression and fear. My mother was constantly questioned, threatened,…
Read MoreFuture CCP Propaganda Versus “No One Dared to Mention the Dead”
January 14, 2025 A UHRP Insights column by Ben Carrdus, UHRP Senior Researcher How has the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tended the gaping chasm between propaganda and reality in China’s modern history? And what do earlier historical precedents of propaganda around past atrocities bode for future propaganda on East Turkistan? This is not intended to…
Read MoreDenial of Rights: Free Trade Zones, Kashgar, and Spaces of Exception
Just over a year ago, China’s State Council, the nation’s chief administrative authority, issued a plan to create the Xinjiang Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ).
Read MoreFaithfully Implementing Propaganda: Chinese State Media Inserts in Overseas Media
In a time when China is imprisoning Uyghur journalists and harassing foreign correspondents, overseas media organizations shouldn’t be distributing Chinese state propaganda about Uyghurs.
Read MoreThe 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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