Posts Tagged ‘UHRP Research’
UHRP Investigation Reveals Startling Expansion of International Hotel Chains in the Uyghur Region
A new report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) reveals alarming evidence that major international hotel chains—Accor, Hilton, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Marriott, and Wyndham—are operating and dramatically expanding their presence in East Turkistan despite ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide.
Read MoreUHRP Commemorates 35th Anniversary of the Barin Uprising
April 3, 2025, 3:00 p.m. ESTFor Immediate ReleaseContact: Henryk Szadziewski (hszad@uhrp.org) On April 5, 1990, demonstrations in Barin (also written as “Baren”), 26 miles south of Kashgar, became known as the “Barin Uprising.” Although exact numbers are unknown, local sources estimate heavily armed Chinese security forces killed 50 protestors, and detentions were in the hundreds…
Read MoreFuture CCP Propaganda Versus “No One Dared to Mention the Dead”
January 14, 2025 A UHRP Insights column by Ben Carrdus, UHRP Senior Researcher How has the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tended the gaping chasm between propaganda and reality in China’s modern history? And what do earlier historical precedents of propaganda around past atrocities bode for future propaganda on East Turkistan? This is not intended to…
Read MoreDenial of Rights: Free Trade Zones, Kashgar, and Spaces of Exception
Just over a year ago, China’s State Council, the nation’s chief administrative authority, issued a plan to create the Xinjiang Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ).
Read MoreUyghur Human Rights Project Marks Uyghur Genocide Recognition Day with Call for Urgent Global Action
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) observes the fourth annual Uyghur Genocide Recognition Day, calling on governments, businesses, and civil society to strengthen accountability measures and deliver justice for the Uyghur people.
Read MoreFaithfully Implementing Propaganda: Chinese State Media Inserts in Overseas Media
In a time when China is imprisoning Uyghur journalists and harassing foreign correspondents, overseas media organizations shouldn’t be distributing Chinese state propaganda about Uyghurs.
Read MoreUHRP Issues Policy Agenda on Uyghur Genocide for New Administration and 119th Congress
In 2025, the White House and Congress must urgently implement stronger policies on the Uyghur genocide, and take decisive action to counter transnational repression to protect human rights and defend U.S. sovereignty.
Read MoreJoint Statement to the 56th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
July 5, 2024 Below is a statement delivered by the International Service for Human Rights under Item 6: Interactive Dialogue on the adoption of China’s 4th Universal Periodic Review Mr. President, This is a joint statement, in solidarity with the victims of human rights violations committed by the Chinese government. Numerous UPR recommendations echo the…
Read More15 Years After Ürümchi Unrest, UHRP Calls on China to Report on Implementation of UN Recommendations
July 5, 2024 | 9:00 a.m. EDTFor Immediate ReleaseContact: Omer Kanat +1 (202) 819-0598, Peter Irwin +1 (646) 906-7722 The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) marks the 15th anniversary of the July 5, 2009, unrest in Ürümchi, and calls on China to publicly report on the steps taken to implement the dozens of recommendations made…
Read MoreThe Persecution of Uyghur Senior Citizens
April 30, 2024 A UHRP Insights column by Henryk Szadziewski, Director of Research, Uyghur Human Rights Project In February 2024, 96-year old Abidin Ayup died in prison. His body was not returned to his family. Instead, two days after his death, his remains were sent to Atush Police Department and then buried. Abidin was the…
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