New books about the Uyghur people from China's northwest region of Xinjiang are hard to come by.
2009 will be remembered as a watershed year for the Uyghur people of East Turkestan...
As President Obama emphasized the benefits of the free flow of information in Shanghai last month, around 20 million citizens of China ...
When most people think of a people suppressed by the Chinese government, the first thing that springs to mind is Tibet...
October 1, 2009 marks sixty years since Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China...
The Old City of Kashgar in China's Xinjiang region is facing demolition despite the dislocation it will cause...
The link is to an article on the intersections between the Great Western Development Drive and the Shanghai...
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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.
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).
Congressional-Executive Commission on China Hearing: Forced Labor, Mass Internment, and Social Control in Xinjiang
UHRP calls for greater protection of Uyghur Americans against Chinese state harassment.
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"
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
