Posts Tagged ‘UHRP Insights’
International Community, Please Do Not Let the Uyghurs Become Hopeless
October 3, 2016 By Ilshat Hassan, the Uyghur Human Rights Project Chinese Translator and Research Assistant，Translated from Chinese by N. Morgret By chance I recently had the opportunity to meet with a Uyghur intellectual from East Turkestan who is worried about his country and people. During our brief conversation I listened to his description of…
Read MoreThe Government Puts a Positive Spin on East Turkestan at the China-Eurasia Expo
September 19, 2016 The fifth annual China-Eurasia Expo takes place this week in Urumqi from September 20th to 25th, giving the Chinese government a platform to present its economic vision for the region to an international audience of political and business leaders. This will be the first of these Expos to take place since Xinjiang…
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 MorePatigul Ghulam – “I don’t have a gun, I have only my mouth and my tears, and you cannot control them.”
March 30, 2016 Original Chinese Blog by Zubayra Shamseden, UHRP Chinese Outreach Coordinator The following is the translation of a Chinese language blog published by the Uyghur Human Rights Project on February 16, 2016. According to Radio Free Asia, Patigul Ghulam faces trial in April, 2016. Patigul Ghulam. Illustration by Brian Williamson, courtesy of Radio…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day 2016
March 6, 2016 On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2016, the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) posts a speech on the condition of Uyghur women’s human rights made by Uyghur democracy leader Rebiya Kadeer on February 27, 2016. At the recent International Students For Liberty Conference held in Washington, D.C. from February 26-28, 2016,…
Read MoreMapping Tool Showcases Research on Incidents in the Uyghur Homeland
January 21, 2016 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has released an online web map highlighting research from “Legitimizing Repression: China’s “War on Terror” Under Xi Jinping and State Policy in East Turkestan.” Based on an analysis of overseas media reports, the March 2015 investigation into incidents of violence and unrest…
Read MoreRebiya Kadeer: 2015 Lantos Human Rights Prize Remarks
December 9, 2015 On the occasion of Human Rights Day 2015, the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice presented Uyghur democracy leader Rebiya Kadeer with the 2015 Lantos Human Rights Prize alongside fellow awardees Irshad Manji and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. All three women have demonstrated courage and conviction in their dedication to human rights, Ms. Kadeer on behalf of the Uyghur…
Read MoreUyghur Rights at 10th Annual Interfaith Interethnic Conference
May 27, 2015 From April 27-30 2015, a group of democracy activists assembled to discuss interethnic and interfaith solutions to improve the situation of human rights in China. The conference was organized by Initiatives for China, and featured a number of prominent Uyghur speakers as well as Tibetans, Mongolians Han Chinese, Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, Muslims,…
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…
Read MoreSchools in East Turkestan Suppress Doppa Festival
May 16, 2014 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project Listen: UHRP interviews a Uyghur student about suppression of the Doppa festival May 5, 2014 marked the fifth celebration of the annual Doppa festival, a day to celebrate Uyghur culture on which Uyghurs wear their doppa, a four-cornered hat that is an essential part of Uyghurs’ traditional…
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