Posts Tagged ‘UHRP Insights’
Witness 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…
Read MoreUHRP Oral History Project – Spotlight on the Ghulja Massacre
February 12, 2014 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project The Uyghur American Association (UAA) organized a demonstration in front of China’s embassy in Washington, DC on February 5, 2014 to commemorate the 17th anniversary of the Ghulja Massacre. At the event, the Uyghur Human Rights Project conducted an interview with Ilyar Shamseden, originally of…
Read MoreWe Are Uyghur: Artist Q&A with Susan Kattas
January 21, 2014 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project We are Uyghur. Collage by Susan Kattas.Photograph of the artwork courtesy of the artist. Susan Kattas, a Hudson, Wisconsin-based artist, recently created a collage inspired by the Uyghurs’ cultural struggle under Chinese government repression. The collage was part of the 45th Parallel Exhibition celebrating peoples…
Read MoreBlog Action Day: A Uyghur Human Rights Perspective
October 16, 2013 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project The theme for Blog Action Day on October 16, 2013 is human rights. The Uyghur Human Rights Project, a Washington, DC-based NGO, has made the subject of bloggers a major focus of our human rights campaigning. For the Uyghur people, blogging and other forms of…
Read MoreOpening a window to exchange, building a bridge of communication: Uyghur Human Rights Project launches a Chinese website
October 9, 2013 By Lu Xiao Xun, Guest Contributor Controlling the political, cultural and social information contained in language is a tactic of any dictatorship. China is world-famous for its control of newspapers, TV, radio, Internet, microblogs, text messaging, blogs, e-mail, and virtually every other form of communicating information. The Cisco-technology driven “Golden Shield” project…
Read MoreUyghurs, Other Ethnic Groups Need Not Apply
August 7, 2013 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project “Ethnic groups including the Hui, Dongxiang, Salar, Yi, Tibetan and Xinjiang Uyghur, with special lifestyles are refused admission.” So reads the sign at an Apple supplier factory in China, photographed by a China Labor Watch (CLW) investigator for a new report released by the New York-based…
Read MoreBook Review: The Vine Basket by Josanne La Valley
May 6, 2013 Ai Lian, Intern, Uyghur Human Rights Project The Vine Basket is a young adult fiction novel that tells the story of a Uyghur girl – Mehrigul – who comes from a small village in East Turkestan (also known as Xinjiang) and faces challenges to finish the one task that could change her life,…
Read MoreUHRP Oral History Project — Interview with Kudrat Emin
March 28, 2013 The Uyghur Human Rights Project’s oral history project, launched in 2012, is a video series of short, documentary-style recordings of the stories of Uyghurs in exile and the circumstances of their flight from China. The project’s goal is to present viewers with human rights abuses in East Turkestan through the stories of…
Read MoreMalaysia and the Deportation of Ethnic Uyghur Asylum Seekers
February 22, 2013 Matt James, Intern, Uyghur Human Rights Project Malaysia is not a nation that is immediately associated with Uyghur asylum seekers. However, the Southeast Asian nation has been the center of not one but two major Uyghur asylum-seeking scandals in the past two years. In both cases, Uyghur asylum seekers were secretly deported…
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