Posts Tagged ‘UHRP Insights’
“Seek Truth from Facts”: The Travails of Researching China
Policing East Turkistan is a useful reminder that China is far more complex than just “the Chinese authorities,” and that a detailed, nuanced understanding of the Chinese polity is essential for accurately identifying responsibilities for the genocide.
Read MorePropaganda, Tourism and Culture: Hu Heping Taking Us for a Ride
In August 2023, US Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo was in Beijing to meet the Minister for Culture and Tourism, Hu Heping, where both sides agreed to “foster better understanding” on tourism between the US and China while citing the importance of “people-to-people” exchanges to the broader US-China relationship.
Read MoreState Department MOU Recognizes China’s Ownership and Control Over Uyghur and Tibetan Cultural Heritage
Uyghurs and Tibetans have seen the People’s Republic of China (PRC) purposefully destroy their cultural heritage in an effort to create the false narrative that the Han were always the dominant culture throughout what is now China.
Read MoreRetraction of XPCC Study by Prominent Medical Journal Shows Editors Need to Get Serious About Research Ethics Red Flags
While this retraction may seem modest, it marks a step towards highlighting unethical research practices involving Uyghur subjects, in light of ongoing crimes against humanity.
Read MoreUyghurs and Tibetans: A Shared Agenda for National Survival and Justice
The author of this article, Tashken Davlet, Outreach Specialist of UHRP, was invited by the Tibet Policy Institute (TPI) to attend the conference “China and the Changing Global Order: Prospests and Challenges” where he published and delivered this report.
Read MorePeeling Back the Layers: Understanding Responsibility from Top to Bottom in the Uyghur Crisis
Individual stories told within a larger context helps us comprehend the mechanisms of authoritarian regimes and the tactics they employ to manipulate and control their citizens.
Read More“Similar to Recent Observations in Xinjiang”: The Expansion of Prisons in Tibet and the Receding Spaces of Information in China
The findings reveal a possible “shift towards longer detentions and imprisonments and is similar to recent observations in Xinjiang,” referring to a 2021 RAND report.
Read MoreSurveillance, Thought Crimes, Children in Custody: The Xinjiang Police Files One Year On
A year ago a consortium of 14 media outlets published the Xinjiang Police Files, a vast collection of documents that includes images, speeches, regulations, and procedures covering China’s vast concentration camp network in East Turkistan.
Read MoreCovert Concentration Camps
“Several days after the July 5th Uyghur Massacre in Urumchi, Chinese police swarmed my uncle, put black bags over his head, and dragged him away to prison.”
Read MoreMainstreaming Stories: A Day of Solidarity with Uyghurs
April 24, 2019 Henryk Szadziewski, Senior Researcher, Uyghur Human Rights Project The accounts of the ‘re-education’ regime that people are undergoing in those camps are harrowing…I imagine my lovely, principled, dedicated colleague there, and I feel incredibly angry. Dr. Rachel Harris, University of London The disappearance of Dr. Rahile Dawut, a leading expert on Uyghur…
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