📰 Issue 6 of the #UyghurReader is out! 🧵 A biweekly roundup highlighting essential reporting + analysis on the Uyghur crisis (August 7–20)—curated by @henrykszad.bsky.social @peterirwin.bsky.social @zubayra.bsky.social

📺 Watch an event organized by the Uyghur Wellness Initiative, moderated by UHRP's @zubayra.bsky.social. "Art as Resistance" included painter Mamatjan Juma and visual artist Gulnaz Tursun, moderated by Zubayra Shamseden. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jtz...

新的维吾尔人权项目观点洞见💡 7·5事件十六周年：被抹黑的抗争与未竟的真相/由阿斯娅@AsiyeUyghur 著 十六年前的7月5日，乌鲁木齐爆发了一场由维吾尔大学生发起的和平示威，他们走上人民广场，仅仅是为了抗议几天前在广东韶关发生的一起维吾尔工人被汉人暴力袭击并杀害的事件。 chinese.uhrp.org/insights/7%c...

Participated "2025 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit", which held in Dublin. law.nd.edu/news-events/...

Indonesia has a moral imperative to act on Uyghur persecution While Western democracies have issued condemnations, imposed sanctions and passed legislation, most of the Islamic world has remained publicly muted about the plight of the Uyghurs. www.aspistrategist.org.au/indonesia-ha...

How China Uses Work to Reshape Uyghur Identity and Control a Strategic Region www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

Beijing targeted friends of U.S.-based reporter amid campaign against Radio Free Asia, documents reveal Xinjiang police records detail a yearslong Chinese government push to silence the news outlet, which the Trump administration has dismantled. www.icij.org/investigatio...

New UHRP #Insights💡 My Father’s Doppa: In Honor of Uyghur Doppa Day "As long as the Uyghurs are still here, and we wear our doppas on our heads, we Uyghurs will eventually overcome the difficulties and revive our nation," writes Rafael Kokbore. uhrp.org/insights/my-...

新维吾尔人权项目 #观点洞见 #Insights💡 《Doppa（花帽）的故事》/由拉法伊尔（Rafael Kokbore)@RafaelUyghur撰写 Doppa上面的图案，父亲或许在我小时候解释过它的含义，但我早已记不清了。我盯着帽子，心中满是困惑：为什么要带上Doppa？ chinese.uhrp.org/insights/dop...

Two years of being illegally locked up in Xinjiang “education-and-training centers” blog.shahit.biz/2025/04/19/t...

British hotel chain ‘violating sanctions’ in China Report alleges that IHG has franchises in Xinjiang where the Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority has been brutally suppressed www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Uyghur rights group calls on hotel chains not to ‘sanitise’ China abuses in Xinjiang Growth in international hotels coincides with government effort to push region as a tourism destination www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

A new report authored by Peter Irwin, Dr. Henryk Szadziewski, and Ben Carrdus, reveals alarming evidence that major international hotel chains are operating and dramatically expanding their presence in East Turkistan despite ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide. uhrp.org/statement/uh...

What has happened to me ~Testimony of an Uyghur ｗoman note.com/tomomishimiz...

BADBAZAAR and MOONSHINE: Spyware targeting Uyghur, Taiwanese and Tibetan groups and civil society actors www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/advisor...

How I Celebrated the 35th Anniversary of the Barin Revolution Every year on April 5 the Uyghur diaspora commemorates an attempted uprising, bloodily repressed by the Chinese in 1990. Why? bitterwinter.org/how-i-celebr...

As Ms Shamseden notes,“The killing of Uyghur protestors, along with later events like the 1997 Ghulja Massacre, serves as evidence of China’s intolerance toward Uyghur resistance and its broader policies of repression, including forced sterilizations and mass incarcerations” uhrp.org/statement/uh...

✍🏽 "The roots of the protests in Barin and the state violence against Uyghur civilians are a precursor to Chinese government atrocity crimes." UHRP Research Director Henryk Szadziewski, PhD writes ahead of the 35th anniversary of the Barin Uprising. uhrp.org/statement/uh...

Nuzugum Lives Among Us Eleanor Moseman’s photography Nuzugum Lives Among Us sensitively, humanely, and candidly depicts the richness of Uyghur daily life prior to the region-wide crackdown that began in 2016-2017. www.patreon.com/posts/nuzugu...

✊🏽 UHRP supports joint statement calling Congress to protect @voanews.com.web.brid.gy, Radio Free Asia, @rferl.org.web.brid.gy journalists facing harassment, imprisonment, deportation. 📣 With 36 orgs, we urge Congress to ensure journalists’ safety. @penamerica.bsky.social uhrp.org/statement/jo...

There are over 1350 elderly victims documented as serving prison terms (potential death sentences). Name: Ayimsa Musa Age: 55 Status: serving a 10-year sentence (Ili Women's Prison) for studying Quran in 1980, religious clothes; brother died in prison shahit.biz/eng/29001/

Journalists visiting deported Uyghurs in Xinjiang face Chinese surveillance www.rfa.org/english/uygh...

新维吾尔人权项目 #观点洞见 #Insights💡 紫丁香未眠/莉娜·安柏博士 (Dr. Lena Amber)著 本诗献给那些受中国政府迫害的东突厥斯坦妇女 他们抹去了我的名字， 用我不懂的语言写下另一个。 可我的母亲依旧低语， 在她的祈祷中，悄声唤回那些失落的音节。。。。 chinese.uhrp.org/insights/%e7...

China forces Uyghurs to show video proof they are not fasting during Ramadan Beijing has criminalized Muslim practices under the guise of stamping out religious extremism. www.rfa.org/english/uygh...

Let Only Red Flowers Bloom — Emily Feng on what it is to be Chinese A swansong for a vanishing world and a moving account of the pressures and persecutions in Xi’s China www.ft.com/content/0900...

A U.S. Retreat in the War of Ideas Trump shuts down networks that help evade dictatorship firewalls. www.wsj.com/opinion/radi...

Eli Ghopur was detained in November 2017 for being an 'untrustworthy individual' and attending a mosque scripture recital in June 1998. He was taken to camp and provisionally sentenced, but died less than a year later. He was 48. shahit.biz/eng/83979/

新维吾尔人权项目 #观点洞见 #Insights💡 《东突厥斯坦妇女的女权与女性人权》/由郭宝胜@milpitas95035撰写 无论是女权，还是个人人权，东突厥斯坦的突厥民族妇女，都无法拥有，而且他们正在遭受中共政权肆无忌惮的对女权和人权的大规模侵犯和剥夺。 chinese.uhrp.org/insights/%e4...

"Bangkok took no action for fear of upsetting China." Canada, Australia, and the US offered Uyghurs in Thailand asylum before their deportation to China. www.reuters.com/world/canada...

UHRP活动🔈 流亡中的女性之声：抵抗中国共产党的压迫 日期：2025 年 3 月 7 日，星期五 时间：美东时间上午 10:00–11:00 在维吾尔人权项目的 Twitter、Facebook 或 YouTube 页面上观看直播 chinese.uhrp.org/event/%e6%b5...

"Uyghurs for sale"

From #Cambodia in 2009 to #Thailand today, #China govt intention to hunt down and force back #Uyghur refugees, asylum seekers. Democracies fumble and mumble, failing to decisively secure these people’s #humanrights—effectively assuring #XiJinping can do as he likes. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/w...

How Trump foreign policy in Europe has already weakened US position vis-a-vis China. A thread, following Thailand's refoulement (illegal deportation of asylum seekers) of Uyghur men who fled there in 2014. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/w...

Today marks 4 years since the death of Qurbanjan Abdukerim (shahit.biz/eng/14346/), a well-known textile trader and entrepreneur from Atush, whose family sold textiles in Kyrgyzstan and Saudi Arabia. He was detained in 2018, released in 2021, and died 4 days later. He was 54.

Thailand deports 40 Uyghurs to China despite fears of torture www.rfa.org/english/uygh...