Posts Tagged ‘UHRP Insights’
Malaysia 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…
Read MoreMazar Shrine Book Launch Details State Control Cautiously
February 20, 2013 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project Photographer Lisa Ross spent eight years studying and photographing mazar, Uyghur religious shrines, across East Turkestan, and the resulting images can be seen in a new book, Living Shrines of Uyghur China. Ross spoke at a book launch at the Rubin Museum in New York…
Read MoreTicking Time Bomb: The Ethnic Crisis Facing China’s New Leadership
Alim Seytoff, President, Uyghur American Association Mr. Seytoff delivered the following speech at a panel discussion organized by Initiatives for China on January 31, 2013 in Washington, DC: Good afternoon everyone. First, I want to thank Dr. Yang Jianli and Initiatives for China for organizing this rather timely panel discussion on the ethnic crisis facing China’s new…
Read MoreGhulja Massacre and China’s Ongoing Repression of Uyghurs
February 5, 2013 Matt James, Intern, Uyghur Human Rights Project Today marks the 16th anniversary of the February 5, 1997 massacre in Ghulja city, which like many of the Chinese state-sponsored acts of cultural genocide and oppression against the Uyghur people has been tragically overlooked by the international community. The Ghulja Massacre’s origins were rooted…
Read MoreArt on Uyghurs in NYC Highlights China’s Information Control
December 7, 2012 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project To inaugurate Forever & Today’s gallery opening in New York’s Chinatown in 2008, the artist collective Slavs and Tatars made a poster: “Keep Your Majorities Close But Your Minorities Closer.” Slavs and Tatars focuses on Eurasia from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of…
Read MoreXinhua Uyghur’s Limited Coverage of Leadership Change
November 20, 2012 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project Xi Jinping, the newly selected General Secretary of China’s Communist Party, held his inaugural press conference last week. His speech, promptly translated on Xinhua’s English site, references China’s obligations to ethnic minority citizens repeatedly. Yet Xinhua’s Uyghur service did not provide a translation of the…
Read MoreUyghurs in Bermuda Still Targets of Misconceptions
October 4, 2012 Matt James, Intern, Uyghur Human Rights Project The latest to emerge on four Uyghurs released from Guantanamo to Bermuda is an interview by Maureen Callahan with three of the four men for an opinion piece in the New York Post. After 9/11 the US military held 22 Uyghur men at Guantanamo, all…
Read MorePork and Terrorism in Pan Guang Talk
September 26, 2012 Matt James, Intern, Uyghur Human Rights Project Dr. Pan Guang is Vice Chairman of Shanghai’s Center for International Studies. He spoke last week on the topic “Understanding China’s Role in Central Asia and Afghanistan,” at the Jamestown Foundation in Washington, D.C., webcast here online. Regarding the Uyghurs’ role in this relationship, Pan…
Read MoreOf Sandstorms and Nuclear Tests
February 27, 2012 Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project The Uyghurs in Kashgar are used to sandstorms. The city’s location in an oasis on the edge of a vast desert makes it a reality of life there. When the wind picks up far out to the north and east and arrives in Kashgar with…
Read More“Offers They Can’t Refuse: China’s Relations with the Muslim World”
September 13, 2011 A new report, “Offers They Can’t Refuse: China’s Relations with the Muslim World”, examines the Chinese government’s relationships with the governments of predominantly Muslim countries, and how these relationships have muted the Muslim world’s response to China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Written by Uyghur Human Rights Project intern Jessica Smith, the…
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