The #HearUyghurs Campaign: On April 17, Uyghur diaspora activist Arslan Hidayat launched a new social-media campaign with the hashtag #HearUyghurs. The campaign highlights the trauma experienced by the worldwide Uyghur diaspora.
UHRP in the News
USCIRF Welcomes Appointment by Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Nury Turkel to U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
May 26, 2020 
May 26, 2020
Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced the appointment of Nury Turkel, a lawyer and Uyghur rights advocate, to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
Uighurs in US Say China Using Detained Family Members in Forced Interviews
May 26, 2020 
May 26, 2020
By Asim Kashgarian
May 24, 2020 09:18 PM
DW interview: Uyghur woman remains 'unfree' despite release from re-education camp
May 19, 2020 
May 19, 2020
Gulzire Taschmemet’s sister vanished into Xinjiang’s re-education camps in 2017. Despite hearing from her earlier this month, she doubts her sister is free from Beijing’s surveillance, she told DW.
Uyghurs Urge Other States to Copy US Sanctions Bill For Chinese XUAR Abuses
May 18, 2020 
May 18, 2020
The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 requires a House vote before it reaches President Trump.
Uyghurs Without Passports: Forced Legibility and Illegibility
May 12, 2020 
May 12, 2020
I am among thousands of Uyghurs who cannot renew their passports and like them I cannot make plans. I cannot enroll at university, I cannot work, and I cannot travel. I don’t want to go back to China to get a new passport out of fear I will never come back. I don’t know what to do.
Cultural destruction in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Dr. Elise Anderson’s presentation)
May 12, 2020
May 12, 2020
On May 9, 2020, we hosted a symposium on what is happening in Xinjiang and why it matters.
After advocating for his release, Uighur woman hears from father via Chinese media
May 6, 2020 
May 6, 2020
Samira Imin had been waiting three years to see her father’s face again.
Patrolling Hearts and Minds? A ‘Red Alert’ Surveillance Warning to the World
April 28, 2020 
April 28, 2020
First the excuse was terrorism. In the years following 9/11, governments around the world capitalised on fear like never before and it became the excuse for the introduction of some of the most draconian surveillance systems the world had ever seen.
Diaspora Uighurs Continue Online Activism Against Crackdown in Xinjiang
April 28, 2020 
April 28, 2020
By Asim Kashgarian
April 27, 2020 08:01 PM
Uyghurs launch silent campaign to demand more international attention on the persecution in Xinjiang
April 27, 2020 
April 27, 2020
As the coronavirus continues to spread across the world, overseas Uyghurs remain concerned about the situation in Xinjiang.
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UHRP REPORT: Weaponized Passports: The Crisis of Uyghur Statelessness
Apr 1, 2020
Apr 1, 2020
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 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.