UHRP calls for greater protection of Uyghur Americans against Chinese state harassment.
UHRP in the News
Global Journalist: China's surveillance state
September 20, 2019 
September 20, 2019
China has a long history of conducting surveillance on its population. But technology is now allowing the government to keep tabs on its people in ways that are perhaps unparalleled in human history.
Xinjiang: The story China wants the world to forget
September 9, 2019 
September 9, 2019
A Listening Post special on media coverage of Xinjiang, both inside China and beyond.
How China spins the Xinjiang story to the Chinese
September 9, 2019 
September 9, 2019
A look at the evolution of China's Xinjiang narrative and how it is controlled by Beijing.
China’s Cross-Border Campaign to Terrorize Uyghur Americans
August 29, 2019 
August 29, 2019
The Chinese government routinely carries out surveillance, threats, and coercion targeting Uyghurs on American soil.
China's Mass Internment of Uighurs Is a 'Modern Cultural Genocide'
August 27, 2019 
August 27, 2019
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Uighurs Find Security in America, but no Promises
August 26, 2019
August 26, 2019
U.N. officials and human rights advocates say China continues to step up its persecution of ethnic Uighurs, confining as many as one million members of the largely Muslim ethnic group in conditions that observers describe as similar to concentration camps.
Outrage Over China’s Uyghur Crisis is Not a Western Conspiracy
August 22, 2019 
August 22, 2019
Last year, vice-chair of the United Nations anti-racism committee, Gay McDougall, stated that China had turned East Turkestan (also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) into “something resembling a massive internment camp, shrouded in secrecy, a sort of no-rights zone.”
Analysis: Persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China - EWTN News Nightly
August 21, 2019 
August 21, 2019
Nury Turkel, chairman of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, looks at the persecution of Uyghur Muslims, an ethnic minority group, by the Chinese government. He breaks down claims Uyghur Muslims who were detained in “re-education centers” have been released and integrated back into society.
China: Free Our Parents From Concentration Camps
August 19, 2019 
August 19, 2019
A million ethnic minority Uighurs have been detained in “re-education camps.” Here, three young people recall how their parents vanished.
EVENT: Cotton- the Fabric Full of Lies: Textile/Apparel Sector Contaminates Global Supply Chains
August 16, 2019
August 16, 2019
Press conference to release report, "Cotton: The Fabric Full of Lies -- A report on forced and prison labor in Xinjiang, China, and the Nexus to Global Supply Chains."
Thursday, August 22, 2019, 1:00pm - 2:00pm (EDT)
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UHRP BRIEFING: UHRP Presentation, Senate Human Rights Caucus, July 24, 2019
Jul 29, 2019
Jul 29, 2019
Presentation by UHRP Director Omer Kanat at the July 24, 2019 U.S. Senate Human Rights Caucus Briefing "Religious Freedom in China: Assessing the Role of Surveillance Technology in Abuses Against the Uyghurs and Across China"
UHRP BRIEFING: The Mass Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques by China: Remarks by UHRP Director Omer Kanat
Jul 23, 2019
Jul 23, 2019
International Religious Freedom Ministerial Side Event: The Mass Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques by China. Remarks by Omer Kanat, Director, Uyghur Human Rights Project
UHRP UPDATE: 435 Intellectuals Detained and Disappeared in the Uyghur Homeland
May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019
Since April 2017, the Chinese government has interned, imprisoned, or forcibly disappeared at least 435 intellectuals as part of its intensified assault on Uyghurs and erasure of their culture.
UHRP SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting Chinese Linguistic Imperialism: Abduweli Ayup and the Movement for Uyghur Mother Tongue-Based Education
May 16, 2019
May 16, 2019
A new special report published by the Uyghur Human Rights Project highlights the politically motivated linguicide of the Uyghur language
UHRP UPDATE: Detained and Disappeared: Intellectuals Under Assault in the Uyghur Homeland
Mar 25, 2019
Mar 25, 2019
The Uyghur Human Rights Project has identified at least 386 Uyghur intellectuals detained and disappeared since early 2017, victims of the massive campaign of ethno-religious repression carried out by the Chinese government in the Uyghur homeland. It is time to end business as usual.