Uyghur Human Rights Project

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The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) promotes the rights for Uyghurs in East Turkistan through research, reporting, and advocacy. Support us: uhrp.org/donate

Xi Jinping visits D.C. this Thurs, Sept 24th. Join us for a rally at Franklin Park and a march to the White House for a vigil to stand up for Uyghurs and others targeted by the CCP's abuses. 📍 Franklin Park, 1332 I St NW, Washington, DC 20005 🗓️ Thursday, September 24, 5:30PM–8PM ⚫️ Wear black

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🗣️Open letter to Xi Jinping ahead of DC visit🗣️ UHRP joins @chrdnet.bsky.social and 28 other human rights organizations urging Xi to: ➡️ Release prisoners of conscience ➡️ End transnational repression ➡️ Commit to legal reforms See our recommendations in the full letter 👇 uhrp.org/statement/an...

An Open Letter to Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping - Uyghur Human Rights Project

September 16, 2026 The following is an open letter, led by Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) and supported by UHRP and 28 other human rights organizations, calling upon Xi Jinping to take specific...

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Reporting from @hrw.org on transnational repression of Uyghur Australians finds China is: ➡️ Interrogating Uyghur Australians visiting East Turkistan ➡️ Coercing Uyghurs to surveil others in the diaspora ➡️ Exploiting vulnerability of separated families www.hrw.org/news/2026/08...

Australia: Chinese Government Menaces Uyghur Diaspora

The Chinese government is interrogating Uyghur Australians visiting Xinjiang, pressing them to collect information on Uyghurs in Australia.

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✍Op-ed by UHRP's Omer Kanat in @thediplomat.com: China’s ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law is Already Harming Uyghurs One month after implementation, China's ‘ethnic unity’ law is already harming Uyghurs and other groups. Governments must challenge the law before it is too late. thediplomat.com/2026/08/chin...

China’s ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law is Already Harming Uyghurs

Government actions that could once be described as regional campaigns are now embedded in national legislation. Restrictions will become easier to expand and harder to challenge.

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On July 28, 2014, Chinese security forces killed dozens of peaceful Uyghur demonstrators in Yarkand, East Turkistan. The Yarkand killings should have been a wake-up call to the international community. Instead, China’s impunity for blatant state violence laid the foundation for today’s genocide.

Join us for a virtual advocacy call to learn how to contact your members of Congress to take action for Uyghur human rights. 📅 Wednesday, July 22 🕐 12PM ET 🔗 Register for link Co-hosts: Uyghur American Association, @cuyghurs.bsky.social, Center for Uyghur Studies, Uyghur Academy, Peace Catalyst

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📢 Stop Transnational Repression Act was introduced in the US Senate. 👏Thank you @schiff.senate.gov & Senator Curtis for introducing this bipartisan legislation to protect Uyghurs and other communities targeted by governments beyond their borders.

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 3mo ago

As China and other nations ramp up their efforts to intimidate and attack critics and dissidents around the world, the United States must take action to protect these important voices. 🧵

✍️Op-ed by UHRP’s Elijah Pockell-Wilson in @aspi-org.bsky.social on Australia’s vulnerability to imports linked to Uyghur forced labor: “If Australia doesn’t strengthen its own laws, goods facing tougher scrutiny in the US and Europe may be redirected onto Australian shelves.” tinyurl.com/5yhkjs95

Australia’s door is still open to goods made with Uyghur forced labour | The Strategist

Australia is leaving its market exposed to goods tied to Uyghur forced labour. As the United States and European Union move to block such goods, countries with weaker import controls risk becoming des...

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📝New UHRP report by Elijah Pockell-Wilson finds that 🇦🇺Australia and 🇯🇵Japan remain vulnerable to Uyghur forced labor imports. Forced labor risks are not being eliminated from global supply chains – they are being redistributed to markets without effective import controls. uhrp.org/report/redir...

Redirected Risk: Uyghur Forced Labor and the Enforcement Gap in Australia and Japan - Uyghur Human Rights Project

A Uyghur Human Rights Project report by Elijah Pockell-Wilson. I. Key Takeaways Forced-labor risk is being redistributed, not eliminated. As the United States enforces the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevent...

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Join us this Wednesday for a virtual advocacy call to learn how to advocate for Uyghur rights with members of Congress. 📅Wednesday, June 24, 2026 🕐12PM ET 🔗Register for link Co-hosts: Uyghur American Association, @cuyghurs.bsky.social, Center for Uyghur Studies, Uyghur Academy, Peace Catalyst.

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Thank you to Sen. Rick Scott and the US Senate for passing S.Res.444 condemning Xi Jinping and recognizing the Uyghur genocide in East Turkistan, first recognized by the US government in 2021. Recognition must be matched with sanctions and accountability. uyghurnews.org/senate-conde...

Senate Condemns Xi Jinping, Naming Uyghur Genocide in “East Turkistan” - Uyghur News Network

A resolution led by Sen. Rick Scott passed by voice vote, citing a genocide the United States first recognized in 2021.

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🗣Today is #UyghurLanguageDay🗣 China’s forced assimilation campaign — forcing children to speak only Chinese, targeting Uyghur language advocates, destroying Uyghur books, banning Uyghur songs — threatens the language’s survival. But despite this repression, the Uyghur language endures.

Family separation isn't a side effect of China's abuses against Uyghurs – it's a deliberate tool of transnational repression. Thank you to all who joined yesterday’s discussion with the Int'l Republican Institute on UHRP’s Fading Ties report, especially @henrykszad.bsky.social and Mihrigul Tursun.

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📣Happening tomorrow! Join us Thursday, May 28, 3PM ET for a powerful in-person discussion on Uyghur family separation and transnational repression. 🔗 RSVP: forms.gle/humrVyGS9im9...

May 28 Panel – Fading Ties: Uyghur Family Separation as a Tool of Transnational Repression

Please join the International Republican Institute and the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) on Thursday, May 28 at 3 PM ET for a discussion on UHRP's recent report, Fading Ties: Uyghur Family Separa...

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Uyghur Human Rights Project@uhrp.org · 4mo ago

Join IRI and UHRP for a discussion on @henrykszad.bsky.social's report, Fading Ties: Uyghur Family Separation as a Tool of Transnational Repression. 📅 Thursday, May 28, 2026 🕒 3:00 PM ET 📍1225 I (Eye) Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20005 🔗RSVP: forms.gle/9BFzTaF5LGmR...

Trump must put detained Uyghur intellectuals on the agenda for his upcoming meeting with Xi. Uyghur American families suffer as their relatives are imprisoned by the Chinese government. Read more in a new Op-Ed by Omer Kanat for @thediplomat.com ⬇️ thediplomat.com/2026/05/trum...

Trump Must Put Detained Uyghur Intellectuals on the Agenda for Xi Summit

If Trump sits across from Xi and fails to raise the cases of Uyghur Americans and their families, Beijing will read that omission not as pragmatism, but as weakness.

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