UHRP’s new report, “Weaponized Passports: The Crisis of Uyghur Statelessness,” documents an ongoing and worsening issue facing Uyghurs abroad, namely refusal to renew passports and denial of access to other documentation by the Chinese government.
UHRP in the News
High-Tech Human Rights Abuses in China
March 20, 2020 
March 20, 2020
In Xinjiang, China has started a massive crackdown on Uighur Muslims and is using high-tech tools developed in Silicon Valley to assist its efforts.
‘Psychological torture’: Uygurs abroad face mental health crisis over plight of relatives who remain in Xinjiang
March 10, 2020 
March 10, 2020
Activists say that even if Beijing’s crackdown can’t be stopped, steps can be taken to address the ‘secondary trauma’ of those who have fled
‘Before virus crisis started, Chinese government already monitoring every aspect of Uighur life’ – Uighur lawyer Nury Turkel
March 10, 2020 
March 10, 2020
Jon spoke to lawyer Nury Turkel who is from the Muslim Uighur community, more than a million of whom are currently being held in camps by the Chinese authorities.
Hikvision AI Training In Xinjiang Paramilitary Base, Now Denies
March 10, 2020
March 10, 2020
Hikvision has been listing AI training in a Xinjiang paramilitary base that bans Uyghurs from participating. However, Hikvision is now denying it and deleted evidence.
Targets of Crackdown in China Fear Government's Reach in US
March 9, 2020 
March 9, 2020
The photo of his father was barely recognizable. The old man looked unusually pale and tired, and his customary beard was shaved off. The son who received the photo over WhatsApp was immediately suspicious.
Human rights representative discusses ‘concentration camps’ of Uyghurs in China
March 9, 2020 
March 9, 2020
Mustafa Aksu, a representative from the Uyghur Human Rights Project, brought attention to what he calls “concentration camps” of Uyghurs in China during a talk on the University of Colorado Boulder campus Wednesday night.
EVENT: Organ Procurement and Extrajudicial Killing in China. Tuesday, March 10
March 5, 2020 
March 5, 2020
Policy forum to confront the evidence of organ procurement and extrajudicial killing in China.
March 10, 2020, U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Room HVC-215.
Uighurs speak on ’21st-century dystopia’
March 4, 2020 
March 4, 2020
The international response to the human rights crisis in Xinjiang has been shameful, guest-speaker Omer Kanat said on Saturday.
Uyghurs starving as China imposes draconian coronavirus measures
February 28, 2020 ![People gather to stage a demonstration in support of Uyghur Turks against human rights violations of China, at Orhangazi Park in Bursa, Turkey on December 20, 2019 [Ali Atmaca / Anadolu Agency]](https://uhrp.org/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_related/public/field/image/20191220_2_39940385_50527065.jpg?itok=WabrqVyU "People gather to stage a demonstration in support of Uyghur Turks against human rights violations of China, at Orhangazi Park in Bursa, Turkey on December 20, 2019 [Ali Atmaca / Anadolu Agency]")
February 28, 2020
Activists in Xinjiang have complained that they are suffering shortages of food and medicine as China imposes a quarantine to curb the spread of coronavirus, reports the New Arab.
Elise Anderson describes the chilling details China keeps on their Uyghur targets
February 20, 2020 
February 20, 2020
Elise Anderson, Senior Program Officer for Research and Advocacy at the Uyghur Human Rights Project, joins Sarah Perry to discuss leaked records from China of invasive surveillance of Uyghur families.
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UHRP BRIEFING: Local Residents in Danger of Starving in East Turkistan
Feb 26, 2020
Feb 26, 2020
The Uyghur Human Rights Project is deeply concerned by alarming new evidence that local residents are starving across the Uyghur homeland.
UHRP REPORT: “Ideological Transformation”: Records of Mass Detention from Qaraqash, Hotan
Feb 18, 2020
Feb 18, 2020
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 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.