A new UHRP report analyzes a leaked document revealing ground-level implementation of the Chinese government’s mass detention program targeting Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples.
UHRP in the News
2020 Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy
February 18, 2020 
February 18, 2020
On the heels of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s main annual session, the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy assembles each year hundreds of courageous dissidents and human rights victims, activists, diplomats, journalists and student leaders to shine a spotlight on urgent human rights situations that require global attention.
EVENT: The Ordeal of a Uyghur County: Case Records of Mass Detention
February 10, 2020 
February 10, 2020
Researchers will release ground-breaking analysis of new evidence documenting the program of detention and guilt by association in the Uyghur Region.
The Ghulja Massacre: remembering China’s brutal crackdown on a peaceful Xinjiang protest
February 7, 2020 
February 7, 2020
It was horrifying to hear that my sister Mesture, who was in severe pain going into labour with her first child Nazife, was unable to go to the hospital in Ghulja city on February 5, 1997 because a blockade had been enforced in the city.
Human rights groups call for action on China's AI-enabled religious repression
February 4, 2020 
February 4, 2020
The China Coalition and The AI Organization call upon U.S. tech companies to confront the role they have played in aiding repression. Further, the Coalition calls upon democratic governments to take action to cut off this assistance to Chinese Communist Party’s continued exploitation of technology to suppress freedom of religion and belief in China and around the world.
EVENT: UHRP's Omer Kanat joins Holocaust Museum panel February 5: "Religious Persecution 75 years after the Holocaust"
February 3, 2020 
February 3, 2020
The Holocaust ended nearly 75 years ago, but persecution against religious minorities including Jews, Christians, Yazidis, Muslims, and others continues to this day.
Safe and sound? China launches propaganda blitz to discredit Uyghur #StillNoInfo campaign
January 21, 2020 
January 21, 2020
Aydidar Kahar tucks her long hair behind her ear and smiles at the camera.
More than 100 Uyghur graveyards demolished by Chinese authorities, satellite images show
January 2, 2020 
January 2, 2020
Uyghur poet Aziz Isa Elkun fled China's far western Xinjiang region more than 20 years ago.
Bloomberg’s business in China has grown. That could create unprecedented entanglements if he is elected president
January 2, 2020 
January 2, 2020
Mike Bloomberg was presiding over his inaugural Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore in 2018 when, to the surprise of some in the audience, he gushed about one of China’s top government officials.
WHY DON’T WE CARE ABOUT CHINA’S UIGHUR MUSLIMS?
December 30, 2019 
December 30, 2019
IT’S BEEN DESCRIBED as the worst human rights crisis in the world — the arbitrary detention in sprawling camps of a million or more Uighur Muslims in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province.
Inside China’s Push to Turn Muslim Minorities Into an Army of Workers
December 30, 2019 
December 30, 2019
The Communist Party wants to remold Xinjiang’s minorities into loyal blue-collar workers to supply Chinese factories with cheap labor.
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UYGHUR BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliography of select news reports & academic works
Compiled by Professor Magnus Fiskesjö
Briefing: A Uyghur’s Reflections on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Jan 27, 2020
Jan 27, 2020
China’s Unprecedented Campaign to Eradicate the Faith, Identity and Cultural Heritage of the Uyghur People
Remarks by Omer Kanat at the 15th Annual Reflections on the Holocaust and Genocides, January 26, 2019, Centers for Pluralism
UHRP BRIEFING: The “laboratory of repression” in East Turkistan: the action agenda | Remarks by Omer Kanat
Dec 13, 2019
Dec 13, 2019
The “laboratory of repression” in East Turkistan demands action by a long list of institutions. Universities, hospitals, and medical companies cannot claim ignorance. The cotton industry and tech companies are on notice. The World Bank and the Olympics are in the hot seat for complicity. History is watching. The lesson is very simple: business as usual must not continue.
UHRP REPORT: Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines
Oct 28, 2019
Oct 28, 2019
A new report presents evidence of the complete or partial destruction of over 100 mosques by the Chinese government. Researcher Bahram Sintash and the Uyghur Human Rights Project cross-reference satellite imagery, photographs, and witness testimony to document the Chinese government’s campaign to wipe out the physical sites of Uyghur Islamic practice.
UHRP BRIEFING: The 2022 Winter Olympics and Beijing’s Uyghur Policy: Sports in the Shadows of Concentration Camps
Oct 21, 2019
Oct 21, 2019
In 2015, Beijing was awarded the rights to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. While the government of the People’s Republic of China has overseen preparations for the 2022 Games under the motto of “joyful rendezvous upon pure ice and snow,” the same state has also overseen the development of a network of concentration camps in East Turkestan (also known as Xinjiang).
UHRP BRIEFING: Testimony of Nury Turkel at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Hearing
Oct 17, 2019
Oct 17, 2019
Congressional-Executive Commission on China Hearing: Forced Labor, Mass Internment, and Social Control in Xinjiang