Trump should raise the ethnic unity law directly with Xi and make clear that attempts to enforce it against people in the United States will not be tolerated.

Issue 32: September 3, 2026 – September 16, 2026  Welcome to the thirty-second issue of the Uyghur Reader, a biweekly content roundup curated by the staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Project. Each issu...

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...

Issue 31: August 20, 2026 – September 2, 2026  Welcome to the thirty-first issue of the Uyghur Reader, a biweekly content roundup curated by the staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Project. Each issue fe...

For immediate release August 21, 2022, 10:00 a.m. EDT Contact: Omer Kanat, +1 (202) 790-1795 On the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, the Uyg...

An Outlaw Ocean Project investigation into Tianyun Organic Agriculture, China’s biggest producer of farmed salmon, and its supply chain out of Xinjiang.

“Heart Full of Light,” Kalbinur Sidik’s memoir, provides a first-hand account of the atrocities against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang.

Beijing is a pioneer in softer tools of transnational repression.

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

Issue 30: August 6, 2026 – August 19, 2026  Welcome to the thirtieth issue of the Uyghur Reader, a biweekly content roundup curated by the staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Project. Each issue features...

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

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.

For immediate release July 31, 2026, 6:30PM EST Contact: Omer Kanat, +1 (202) 790-1795 The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) welcomes the Department of Homeland Security’s addition of 43 entities to ...

New report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project analyses political violence from 2013-14

The detention of U.S. citizen Min Zin on dubious espionage charges is the latest evidence that Beijing’s campaign to silence dissidents and critics abroad is expanding in scope and audacity. Without a...

Ma Xingrui is the third member of the Politburo to be purged since 2022. He once led the Xinjiang region and was previously head of China’s space program.

Xi Jinping’s push for assimilation won’t solve long-standing issues.

Executive Summary: The 9th China–Eurasia Expo (中国-欧亚博览会) convened in Urumqi from June 25–29, bringing more than 3,000 companies from around the world to the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous R...

Issue 28: July 9, 2026 – July 22, 2026 Welcome to the twenty-eighth issue of the Uyghur Reader, a biweekly content round-up curated by the staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Project. Each issue features...

Join advocates and community members in an interactive session to strengthen your legislative advocacy skills. Learn how to effectively engage your representatives, understand the congressional proces...

By Kyinzom Dhongdue Strategy and Advocacy Manager at Amnesty International Australia I'll be honest. As a Tibetan working in international human rights, I

Feelings of statelessness happen when a people’s language, their culture, their memories, and future no longer have an equal place in the land they call home.

Ablet Turdi On March 12, 2026, the Chinese Communist Party passed the Law on the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress. It entered into force on July 1, 2026. The law provides a comprehensive legal f...

A hit TV drama is fueling a tourism boom in northern Xinjiang, helping Beijing bind one of its most sensitive frontier regions more closely to the cultural mainstream.

Issue 27: June 15 – July 8, 2026 Welcome to the twenty-seventh issue of the Uyghur Reader, a biweekly content roundup curated by the staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.  Each issue features care...

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...

A football tournament is China’s latest propaganda campaign to whitewash its abuses of Uyghur people – and deconstruct Uyghur identity in favor of Chinese “unity.”

Countries without forced labor import prohibitions not only remain exposed to forced labor-tainted goods, the Uyghur Human Rights Project warned, but they may also attract them.

Before there was vocabulary for politics, there was already a language of absence: unanswered calls, lowered voices, a syllable in Uyghur that could feel like a small homeland. Identity is not somethi...

In the Chinese province of Xinjiang, the Uyghur ethnic minority faces mass detention and forced labor. The CCP has woven databases,

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) regrets the imposition of the death penalty by a Thai court on two Uyghur men from China’s (…)

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China has a right to target people outside of its borders who contravene its new law on ethnic unity, a senior official said on ​Wednesday, adding that this was in line with international practice, an...

Issue 26:  June 11, 2026 – June 24, 2026 Welcome to the twenty-sixth issue of the Uyghur Reader, a biweekly content roundup curated by the staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.  Each issue feature...

A new report released today by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) finds that Australia and Japan remain vulnerable to imports linked to Uyghur forced labor, creating opportunities for high-risk go...

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...

Join advocates and community members in an interactive session to strengthen your legislative advocacy skills. Learn how to effectively engage your representatives, understand the congressional proces...

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

A new special report published by the Uyghur Human Rights Project highlights the politically motivated linguicide of the Uyghur language

Authorities in China's Xinjiang region are threatening to detain residents over downloading, listening to and sharing Uyghur-language songs they consider sensitive.

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