📰 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...