Network for Uyghur Rights Co-ED @peterirwin.bsky.social cited in major new @alisonkilling.bsky.social investigation for the FT. Prison research by Irwin + Ben Carrdus also cited: "The camps became the focus internationally, but prisons were always central to the system." www.ft.com/content/119d...

📝 New UHRP report by @peterirwin.bsky.social exposes an entire industry of global companies supporting China's winter and leisure tourism industry in the Uyghur Region. Companies include Burton, Patagonia, Helly Hansen, Disney, Bombardier Recreation Products (BRP). uhrp.org/report/white...

✍🏼 Op-ed by Henryk Szadziewski and Peter Irwin for Open Global Rights. Expedia and Booking.com are facilitating hotel bookings in Uyghur Region amidst genocide and crimes against humanity. www.openglobalrights.org/how-a-casual...

📰 Issue 16 of the #UyghurReader is out! A biweekly roundup of reporting + analysis on the Uyghur crisis, including forced labor warnings, transnational repression, and cultural erasure. Curated by @henrykszad.bsky.social @peterirwin.bsky.social @zubayra.bsky.social uhrp.org/uyghur-reade...

📰 Issue 13 of the #UyghurReader is out! A biweekly roundup highlighting essential reporting + analysis on the Uyghur crisis (Nov 13–26). Curated 🧠 this week by @henrykszad.bsky.social @peterirwin.bsky.social @zubayra.bsky.social. uhrp.org/uyghur-reade...

UHRP #Insights💡 As #COP30 🌍 unfolded this week, @peterirwin.bsky.social and @henrykszad.bsky.social highlight China's expansion of 🪨 coal-to-chemical projects in the Uyghur Region. We look at pollution, strained water resources, and environmental degradation as a result. uhrp.org/insights/coa...

"Some 200 international hotels, including prominent names like Hilton and Marriott, are either already operating or planning to open in Xinjiang, according to [the] Uyghur Human Rights Project." BBC News cites research by @peterirwin.bsky.social @henrykszad.bsky.social. www.bbc.com/news/article...

💡UHRP #Insights by @henrykszad.bsky.social + @peterirwin.bsky.social show how Booking and Expedia profit from hotel bookings in the Uyghur Region, despite ongoing atrocity crimes. These platforms list hotels connected to a sanctioned entity, forced labor, and other abuses. uhrp.org/insights/how...

📊 UHRP research by @peterirwin.bsky.social and @henrykszad.bsky.social uncovers surge in air cargo flights between Ürümchi and over a dozen European cities. These ✈️ 📦 routes risk carrying goods linked to Uyghur forced labor directly into European supply chains. uhrp.org/report/manif...

📖 Issue 9 of the #UyghurReader is out! 🧵 A biweekly roundup highlighting essential reporting + analysis on the Uyghur crisis (Sep 18 – Oct 1), curated by @henrykszad.bsky.social @peterirwin.bsky.social @zubayra.bsky.social uhrp.org/uyghur-reade...

📢 Tribune libre avec Gulbahar Haitiwaji & @peterirwin.bsky.social sur Accor et ses activités au Xinjiang. « La solution est claire : les entreprises doivent cesser leurs activités au Xinjiang, et les gouvernements doivent les tenir responsables si elles refusent. » (1/2)

Significant new investigation from @robhastings.bsky.social for @theipaper.com shows significant 📈 in imports from Uyghur Region to the 🇬🇧 UK. The report builds on UHRP research by @peterirwin.bsky.social and @henrykszad.bsky.social showing a surge in cargo flights into the EU and UK.

📊 New UHRP research by @peterirwin.bsky.social and @henrykszad.bsky.social uncovers surge in air cargo flights between Ürümchi and over a dozen European cities. These ✈️ 📦 routes risk carrying goods linked to Uyghur forced labor directly into European supply chains. uhrp.org/report/manif...

Exclusive @politico.com coverage of research by @peterirwin.bsky.social + @henrykszad.bsky.social on 📈 in cargo flights from Uyghur Region to Europe. These ✈️ planes carry goods from sectors at high risk of forced labor. @glanktree.bsky.social @hannecl.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/chin...

New UHRP #Insights💡 "Uyghur Deportations from Thailand Part of a Decade of Betrayal," by @peterirwin.bsky.social. On July 8, 2015, Thai authorities deported at least 109 Uyghur men to China. Ten years later, #TransnationalRepression has only increased. uhrp.org/insights/uyg...

UHRP #Insights 💡 by @henrykszad.bsky.social + @peterirwin.bsky.social "Princeton University Press' Trip into Chinese State Propaganda Erasing Atrocities, and How They Can Support Uyghur Intellectuals" uhrp.org/statement/pr...

Research by @peterirwin.bsky.social @henrykszad.bsky.social + Ben Carrdus from April demonstrated the dramatic 📈 increase in international hotel chains in the Uyghur region. IHG is operating—and dramatically expanding—its business amidst atrocities. uhrp.org/report/it-do...

📣 Check out Issue 2 of the #UyghurReader: a biweekly roundup curated by UHRP's @henrykszad.bsky.social and @peterirwin.bsky.social. Each issue highlights urgent human rights reporting, analysis, and stories from across the Uyghur world—from East Turkistan to the diaspora. uhrp.org/uyghur-reade...

One prominent industry continues to avoid scrutiny for operating in Xinjiang: major international hotel chains, peterirwin.bsky.social and @henrykszad.bsky.social write. Rather than reducing their exposure to the region, these companies are on a building spree.

The "naming and shaming" human rights strategy hasn't kept major international hotel chains from expanding their operations in China's Xinjiang province, @peterirwin.bsky.social and @henrykszad.bsky.social write.

New op-ed by UHRP's @peterirwin.bsky.social and @henrykszad.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com 👉🏼 Despite atrocities, major hotel chains are rapidly expanding in the Uyghur Region. Shaming China isn't enough if corporations like Marriott and Hilton get a free pass. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/02/c...

Research by Peter Irwin and Ben Carrdus found that the Uyghur Region has the highest imprisonment rate in the world—an estimated 2,234 per 100,000 people. Uyghurs + other Turkic peoples account for *more than a third* of China’s estimated total prison population. uhrp.org/insights/uhr...

"[According to UHRP] an estimated one in 26 Uyghurs in Xinjiang have been imprisoned, and official statistics show that the region had more than 578,000 criminal convictions between 2017 and 2022." Research by @peterirwin.bsky.social + Ben Carrdus cited. lareviewofbooks.org/article/were...

“There is absolutely no way these multibillion-dollar corporations can operate responsibly in this environment – their presence alone normalises and legitimises these abuses,” said Peter Irwin, report co-author. @the-independent.com coverage of new research. www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/u...

British chain IHG, which owns #InterContinental, Holiday Inn & other brands, is accused of violating sanctions by building hotels in #China’s Xinjiang where MPs hv said genocide is occurring against Muslim groups, incl #Uyghurs. cc @uyghurproject.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Peter Irwin, associate director for research and advocacy at UHRP, said: “The government can point to these major companies entrenching themselves [...] as evidence that everything is normal, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.” UHRP research cited. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Uyghur rights group calls on hotel chains not to ‘sanitise’ China abuses in Xinjiang

🆕 New UHRP research on dramatic 📈 increase in int'l hotels chains in the Uyghur region—by @peterirwin.bsky.social, @henrykszad.bsky.social, and Ben Carrdus. Major 🏨 chains all operating amidst atrocities. 📊 uhrp.org/report/it-does-matter-where-you-stay-international-hotel-chains-in-east-turkistan

Devastating news. A flight from Bangkok (DMK) left at 4:48 a.m. Thursday, landing in Kashgar at 12:09 p.m. local time. Trucks with covered windows left the Bangkok prison, where 43 Uyghur men were held, just after 2:00 a.m. Thursday. The plane almost certainly carried the group of Uyghurs.

Recasting the region for tourism supports the "state narrative of shifting from a region that is unstable [...] and now is ready for visiting and investment." UHRP Research Director @henrykszad.bsky.social on his #GenocideTours research. www.thewirechina.com/2025/02/16/x...

On February 5, 1997, Chinese security forces opened fire on Uyghurs peacefully protesting a crackdown on a burgeoning civil society movement. The Ghulja Massacre is a tragic reminder of the ongoing repression of Uyghurs. #GhuljaMassacre

"There are distressing indications that protection of the group from deportation has not been [UNHCR's] top priority," said Ben Carrdus, UHRP senior researcher. New questions on UNHCR's lack of support for Uyghurs in 🇹🇭 Thailand @6oldberg.bsky.social. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

Dozens of Uyghurs remain at *high risk* of deportation from Thailand. "The group has a clear right not to be deported and they’re acting within international law by fleeing China," said @peterirwin.bsky.social for UHRP. apnews.com/article/uygh...

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Glad to have my research cited over the last couple weeks: ▶ US-China 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Economic & Security Review Commission's Annual Report to Congress ▶ Congressional Research Service: Human Rights in China and US Policy "Islam Dispossessed" was covered exclusively by the BBC + appeared on air after release.

New UHRP #Insights 💡 "Faithfully Implementing Propaganda: Chinese State Media Inserts in Overseas Media" by @henrykszad.bsky.social, @peterirwin.bsky.social and Ben Carrdus. uhrp.org/insights/faithfully-implementing-propaganda-chinese-state-media-inserts-in-overseas-media/

Glad to have my research cited over the last couple weeks: ▶ US-China 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Economic & Security Review Commission's Annual Report to Congress ▶ Congressional Research Service: Human Rights in China and US Policy "Islam Dispossessed" was covered exclusively by the BBC + appeared on air after release.

Day 1⃣ of the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights #UNForumBHR in 🇨🇭 Geneva 👇🏽 @uyghurproject.bsky.social is attending w/ partners to call attention to Uyghur forced labor + to urge businesses to extricate supply chains from the Uyghur Region. #BizHumanRights

⚡️ A big step forward in combatting state-imposed forced labor in the Uyghur region. UHRP's agrees that the European Commission should identify the Uyghur region as a high-risk region experiencing state-imposed forced labor in the forced labor risk database. www.hrw.org/news/2024/11...

"According to a 2023 UHRP report, [UNHCR] is often 'unable to provide meaningful protection to Uyghur refugees.'" Critical piece by Nyrola Elimä + @benmauk.bsky.social on Uyghurs languishing for 10+ years in 🇹🇭 Thai detention, threats from transnational repression. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/m...