Weaponized Passports: The Crisis of Uyghur Statelessness

Posted on April 14, 2020, in Reports UHRP

Uyghur Human Rights Project, April 1, 2020

UHRP – 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.

For several years, Uyghurs have been unable to renew their passports at Chinese embassies and consulates as other P.R.C. citizens are able to do.  Instead, Chinese embassy officials destroy their existing passports and replace them with one-way travel documents in order to force them to return, where they face extrajudicial detention or imprisonment.

Local Residents in Danger of Starving in East Turkistan

Posted on April 14, 2020, in Reports UHRP

Uyghur Human Rights Project, February 26, 2020

UHRP – The Uyghur Human Rights Project is deeply concerned by alarming new evidence that local residents are starving across the Uyghur homeland. Since mid-February, Uyghur-language social media has lit up with disturbing videos, photos, and other information providing evidence that a month-long coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown is leaving many East Turkistan residents hungry.

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

Posted on April 14, 2020, in Reports UHRP

Uyghur Human Rights Project, February 18, 2020

UHRP – In 2019, low-level government officials from Bostan subdistrict, Qaraqash county, Hotan prefecture compiled information about Uyghur internees under their jurisdiction. The details of 311 of those internees have come to light in a leaked spreadsheet the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) calls the Qaraqash Document.

UHRP’s report “Ideological Transformation”: Records of Mass Detention from Qaraqash, Hotan describes and analyzes this document, which contains in-depth information about the familial and social circles of internees from eight Qaraqash neighborhoods. The purpose of the data is to evaluate whether internees should remain in detention or be released.

A Uyghur’s Reflections on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Posted on April 14, 2020, in Reports UHRP

Uyghur Human Rights Project, January 27, 2020

UHRP – A Uyghur’s Reflections on International Holocaust Remembrance Day China’s Unprecedented Campaign to Eradicate the Faith, Identity and Cultural Heritage of the Uyghur People
Omer Kanat, Executive Director, Uyghur Human Rights Project
Remarks at the 15th Annual Reflections on the Holocaust and Genocides
 January 26, 2020
Centers for Pluralism

The “laboratory of repression” in East Turkistan: the action agenda | Remarks by Omer Kanat

Posted on April 14, 2020, in Reports UHRP

Uyghur Human Rights Project, December 13, 2019

UHRP – Remarks by Omer Kanat
Executive Committee Chairman, World Uyghur Congress and 
Executive Director, Uyghur Human Rights Project
December 10, 2019
The Uyghur Crisis: A Laboratory for Rights Abuses
Brussels, Belgium
Conference at the European Parliament