June 19, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project On World Refugee Day 2020, the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) calls on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to address looming statelessness for Uyghurs outside of China. The stated theme for World Refugee Day 2020 aims “to remind the […]
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June 8, 2020 By HeritageDaily Dating archaeological objects precisely is difficult, even when using techniques such as radiocarbon dating. Using a recently developed method, based on the presence of sudden spikes in carbon-14 concentration, scientists at the University of Groningen, together with Russian colleagues, have pinned the date for the […]
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April 22, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project On Earth Day, UHRP highlights the connection between state oppression of Uyghurs and environmental degradation in East Turkistan. The Chinese government has increased the extraction of East Turkistan’s natural resources, such as minerals and foil fuels, and has massively expanded intensive agriculture […]
April 7, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project The Chinese government should play no role in the selection process of United Nations experts tasked with investigating human rights abuses, while at the same time refusing to accept their legitimacy. The Chinese government’s track record of obstructing UN human rights mechanisms […]
Original Uighur By Tahir Imin Uighurian Tranlated: Fatimah Abdulghafur On January 10, 2020, Tunisian Coalition of Imams protested against the China’s oppression and genocide of Uighurs. The protest took place in front of the Chinese embassy in Tunis after the Friday prayer. The Imams from the Coalition demanded a stop […]
By Fatimah Abdulghafur No response from the Chinese embassy On December 8, 2019, the Global Times (GT), a Chinese propaganda media, has published news on the missing members of the diaspora Uighurs. In the news, they showed pictures of some missing people and depicted them as ‘free, happy and healthy’. […]
A festivity of commemorating the establishment of independent East Turkestan Republic in 1933 and 1944 was organized by activist Abdurehim Gheni at Amsterdam Dam Square on 16th November 2019. The festivity started with a speech in Uyghur and Dutch language given by Abdurehim Gheni, organizer of this event and an […]
A new report from the UHRP and Bahram K. Sintash reveals new evidence about China’s horrendous crimes against the Uyghurs and other Muslim Turkic people in East Turkestan (aka Xinjiang, China). In the brutal campaign to eradicate the Uyghur identity, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has targeted the Uyghurs’ practice […]
China and the Uighurs (Aug. 6, 2019, DW Documentary), 61k views It’s believed more than a million ethnic Uighurs are interned in China. Chinese officials call the detention facilities ‘re-education’ camps, but there’s overwhelming evidence that they are prison-like compounds designed for mass incarceration. China’s western Xinjiang region is almost […]