Lina K 27/03/2024 Lina K 27/03/2024

Learning From the Deportation and Imprisonment of Uyghur Imam

Eighteen years ago, Canadian citizen, imam, and Uyghur human rights activist Huseyin Celil was deported from Uzbekistan to China, where he received a life sentence for his support of Uyghur rights.

Lina K 13/12/2023 Lina K 13/12/2023

Policing East Turkistan: Mapping Police and Security Forces in the Uyghur Region

This report explores the institutions of policing in Xinjiang, helping to build a fuller picture of the systematic and Party-state-sponsored human rights atrocities perpetrated against Uyghurs and other Turkic people.

Lina K 30/08/2023 Lina K 30/08/2023

Genocide Tours: International Travel Companies in East Turkistan

This new report highlights the troubling industry of organized travel to the Uyghur region, with companies continuing to offer tours despite ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide.

Lina K 09/02/2023 Lina K 09/02/2023

The Complicity of Heritage: Cultural Heritage and Genocide in the Uyghur Region

This report highlights how China’s actions constitute what UNESCO calls “strategic cultural cleansing”, through systematic destruction of cultural heritage and targeting people on the basis of their ethnic affiliation.

Lina K 21/12/2022 Lina K 21/12/2022

A Guide on East Turkistan Language, Uyghur Names and Geography

This report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) offers a guide to rendering the Uyghur language in Latin script, reporting Uyghur names, and using Uyghur versions of geographical locations.

Lina K 07/12/2022 Lina K 07/12/2022

Event: The Uyghur Tribunal - Opportunities for Change One Year Later

This webinar will reflect on how the Uyghur Tribunal’s findings have been applied in practice over the past year, and how advocates, experts, and scholars can continue to pursue justice.

Lina K 16/11/2022 Lina K 16/11/2022

Forced Marriage of Uyghur Women: State Policies for Interethnic Marriage

This report examines the state-sponsored campaign of forcefully assimilating Uyghurs through coerced inter-ethnic marriages between Han men and Uyghur women.

Lina K 09/09/2022 Lina K 09/09/2022

"We are Dying": Desperate Messages from Uyghurs Facing Starvation and Death Under Zero COVID Lockdowns

Members of the Uyghur diaspora around the world are stunned and heartbroken as they view dozens of messages expressing mounting desperation amid COVID-19 lockdowns.

Lina K 26/07/2022 Lina K 26/07/2022

Event: Government Boarding Schools as a Tool of Genocide in the 21st Century - Uyghur and Tibetan Family Separation

The Chinese government is operating mandatory boarding schools for Uyghur children as part of its genocidal policies, in a systematic effort to separate Uyghur children from their families. This recorded discussion covers the implications of these crimes and the need for a policy response.

Lina K 24/03/2022 Lina K 24/03/2022

Beyond Silence: Transnational Repression of Uyghurs

This report assesses the growing scale of repression of Uyghurs in the Arab states as China’s relations there have strengthened.

Lina K 21/12/2021 Lina K 21/12/2021

Meet the “New” Uyghurs: CGTN’s Role in Mediawashing Genocide

China’s flagship international broadcaster, China Global Television Network (CGTN), is central to an influence campaign meant to convince a worldwide public that the Uyghurs and the Uyghur Region have been politically cleansed through reeducation, and that the region is now open for state-approved cultural tourism.

Lina K 24/06/2021 Lina K 24/06/2021

No Space Left to Run: China’s Transnational Repression of Uyghurs

This report is the product of an effort to understand the means by which China targets Uyghurs beyond its borders to silence dissent, gathering cases of China’s transnational repression of Uyghurs from public sources, including government documents, human rights reports, and reporting by credible news agencies to establish a detailed analysis of how the scale and scope of China’s global repression are expanding.

Lina K 13/05/2021 Lina K 13/05/2021

Islam Dispossessed: China’s Persecution of Uyghur Imams and Religious Figures

Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in East Turkistan (also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China) have long endured repressive Chinese government policies targeting their cultural identity. Religious leaders in particular have been frequent subjects of state-directed abuse. This report presents new evidence detailing the extent to which Uyghur religious figures have been targeted over time.

Lina K 28/07/2020 Lina K 28/07/2020

Event: Disinformation, Propaganda and the Uyghur Crisis

To launch a new report, "The Happiest Muslims in the World": Disinformation, Propaganda and the Uyghur Crisis, UHRP has invited a panel of experts to discuss this timely issue and its implications for human rights worldwide.

Lina K 20/07/2020 Lina K 20/07/2020

“The Happiest Muslims in the World”: Disinformation, Propaganda and the Uyghur Crisis

This report analyses English-language Chinese media sources aimed at foreign audiences to examine CCP messaging strategies on the Uyghur human rights crisis.

Lina K 14/04/2020 Lina K 14/04/2020

“Ideological Transformation”: Records of Mass Detention From Qaraqash, Hotan

This report describes and analyzes a leaked government document known as the Karakax List which contains in-depth information about the familial and social circles of internees from eight Uyghur neighborhoods.

Lina K 21/05/2019 Lina K 21/05/2019

Detained and Disappeared: Intellectuals Under Assault in the Uyghur Homeland

Since April 2017, the Chinese government has interned, imprisoned, or forcibly disappeared at least 435 intellectuals as part of its intensified assault on Uyghurs and erasure of their culture. This group is likely a small fraction of all Uyghur intellectuals suffering serious human rights violations.

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