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
A Laboratory for Repression: China’s Crimes Against Humanity in the Uyghur Homeland
February 26, 2019 
February 26, 2019
The Chinese Communist Party poses a fundamental threat to civilized values and a rules-based international order. The Party’s massive crackdown in 2018 is breathtaking, encompassing independent intellectuals, civil society, and religious believers of all kinds, including Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetan Buddhists, Chinese Buddhists, and Hui and Turkic Muslims across the length and breadth of China.
Disappeared Forever?
February 21, 2019 
February 21, 2019
I was raised in the UK by parents who survived the Nazi occupation of Poland. I grew up hearing their stories of fear and deprivation.
#MeTooUyghur: The Mystery of a Uyghur Musician Triggers an Online Campaign
February 14, 2019 
February 14, 2019
While the international community debates the authenticity of a video of Uyghur musician Abdurehim Heyit, an exiled Uyghur in Finland kicks off a new online campaign demanding Beijing to release more evidence of the millions of others who are reportedly detained in Xinjiang’s re-education camps.
Çin Müslümanlar'ın Sessizliğini Satın Almaya Çalışıyor'
February 13, 2019 
February 13, 2019
Çin’in Şincan Uygur Özerk Bölgesi’nde yaşayan Uygurlar’a yönelik politikaları uluslararası toplumun da gündeminde.
Uighur academics targeted by Chinese ‘cultural cleansing’
February 12, 2019 
February 12, 2019
Academics have been urged to mention China’s persecution of Muslim minorities at every public event in which they participate
How Lawyers Can Help the Uyghur Human Rights Crisis
February 11, 2019 
February 11, 2019
Public awareness in the United States of this situation is not nearly widespread enough.
Uyghurs Demand an End to Mass Incarcerations Ahead of 22nd Anniversary of Ghulja Massacre
February 4, 2019 
February 4, 2019
The Feb. 5, 1997 killings of peaceful Uyghur protesters by Chinese security forces left hundreds dead.
Uyghur scholars and students interned or disappeared
January 30, 2019 
January 30, 2019
Specific details are emerging about an alarming number of university teachers of China’s Uyghur Muslim minority identified as interned, imprisoned or forcibly disappeared in China – part of a major government crackdown on Uyghurs that has seen around 1 million detained in camps in Xinjiang province since 2017.
What's happening to the Uyghur in China?
January 29, 2019 
January 29, 2019
In the Chinese region of Xinjiang, tens of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been detained inside enormous extrajudicial ‘re-education camps’.
Indonesia urged to bring Uighur rights issue to OIC
January 22, 2019 
January 22, 2019
According to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, at least 2 million Muslim Uighurs and other minorities in China’s Xinjiang region have been forced into “political camps for
indoctrination”.
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Compiled by Professor Magnus Fiskesjö
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.