Posts Tagged ‘UHRP Research’
16 Years After July 5 Unrest, UHRP Demands Information on Disappeared Uyghurs
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) marks the 16th anniversary of the July 5, 2009, violent suppression of Uyghur protests in Ürümchi, and urges governments to demand information about the disappeared individuals who are still missing.
Read MoreUHRP Urges UK to Clarify Minister’s Meeting with IHG Over Operations Amid Atrocities, Ties to Sanctioned Entity
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) is urging the UK government to clarify the nature and scope of Trade Minister Douglas Alexander’s meetings with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) during his April 2025 trip to China.
Read MoreUHRP Report Sparks UK Parliamentarians to Call on IHG to Explain Expansion in Uyghur Region Amid Atrocity Crimes
A group of UK Parliamentarians from the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) have issued a joint letter to the CEO of InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), raising alarm over the company’s expanding footprint in East Turkistan, where Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples are subjected to crimes against humanity and acts of genocide.
Read MoreUHRP 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.
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