Posts Tagged ‘UHRP Insights’
Ilham Tohti Wins 2017 Weimar Human Rights Award
July 3, 2017 On Thursday June 29th the Weimar city council announced that they have awarded this year’s Weimar Human Rights Award to Professor Ilham Tohti for his dedication to advancing the cause of human rights for the Uyghur people. In recognition of “its special historical responsibility and as a symbol of all the anonymous…
Read MoreThe East Turkistan Australian Association Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
May 8, 2017 On the 29th of April Ms. Zubayra Shamseden spoke at the East Turkistan Australian Association’s 25th anniversary celebration. It is a great honor for me to be here today to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of East Turkistan Australian Association Inc. (ETAA)’s establishment. It is also a great feeling to be ‘back home’…
Read MoreGovernment Repression Cannot Solve the Problem of Fake News
December 15, 2016 The provincial government of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has just passed a law that went into effect last week that will issue large fines of up to 500,000 RMB to individuals spreading false news and harmful content online, harmful being defined as damaging to national security, religious and ethnic harmony or seeking…
Read MoreDissidents Call for the Incoming U.S. Administration to Push China on Human Rights Abuses
December 8, 2016 A large panel of dissidents called on the incoming Trump administration to reevaluate the U.S. approach towards China in a hearing before the Congressional Executive Commission on China on December 7. Each participant offered advice for President-elect Trump, and all seemed to sense that the US-China relationship is at a turning point.…
Read MoreForbidding Children from Participating in Religion is Nothing New in East Turkestan
October 18, 2016 Last week the government of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region announced a new education law that will come into force on November first in the region’s state media (for full Chinese text, see here). The most widely reported aspect of the new law was the provision that parents and guardians are forbidden…
Read MoreInternational 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,…
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