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The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) promotes the rights for Uyghurs in East Turkistan through research, reporting, and advocacy.

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Uyghur Human Rights Project @uhrp.org · Jul 31
📊 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.

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Thai National Human Rights Commission finds that deportation of Uyghurs to China in February:

"[C]ontravened the principle of non-refoulement, international human rights treaties, and the 2022 Act on Torture and Enforced Disappearance."

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Thai Human Rights Commission: Uyghur deportation unlawful
On February 27, 2025, Thailand returned 40 Uyghur refugees to China despite staggering amounts of evidence indicating they were at high risk of torture, enforced disappearance, and other inhuman treat...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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📰 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.

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The Uyghur Reader: Stories We’re Following (Issue 13) - Uyghur Human Rights Project
Welcome to the thirteenth issue of the Uyghur Reader, a biweekly content roundup curated by the staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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UHRP #Insights💡

Three years after the deadly Ürümchi fire, Zubayra Shamseden reflects on the price young Uyghurs like Kamile Wayit and Yashar Shohret paid, and the need for a unified solidarity movement.

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Remembering the Ürümchi Fire Victims and the Need for a Unified Solidarity Movement in China - Uyghur Human Rights Project
On November 24 2022, three years ago today, a fire broke out in a predominantly Uyghur residential building in Ürümchi that killed at least ten people.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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NEW research by @peterirwin.bsky.social for UHRP #Insights💡

Building on July research, Irwin finds cargo flights from Ürümchi to Europe increasing, with more carriers to new destinations.

New routes fly directly to 🇫🇷 Paris and Lyon.

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From Ürümchi to Paris and Brussels: The Spread of Uyghur Region Air Cargo Across Europe - Uyghur Human Rights Project
November 24, 2025 A UHRP Insights column by Peter Irwin, Associate Director for Research and Advocacy In July 2025, I warned in research with Henryk Szadziewski, UHRP Director of Research, about new a...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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UHRP Event Today (CN language) ➡️

🕚 11:00 a.m. EST
📍 Online (see link for details)

🗣️Ma Ju, a Hui Islamic scholar, advocate, activist
🗣️Li Fangping, human rights lawyer who represented Ilham Tohti and many others

Event organized by @zubayra.bsky.social

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中共严惩冯斯瑜，窒息汉人对维吾尔人的支持? - Uyghur Human Rights Project
日期：2025年11月24日，星期一时间：美国东部时间上午11:00至中午12:00请在维吾尔人权项目的领英、…
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November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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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.

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Coal-to-Chemical Expansion in East Turkistan and the Fracture in China’s Climate Commitments - Uyghur Human Rights Project
As world leaders gather in Belém this week for COP30, China arrives with familiar rhetoric: a pledge to peak carbon emissions before 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📰 Issue 12 of the #UyghurReader is out!

A biweekly roundup highlighting essential reporting + analysis on the Uyghur crisis (Oct 30 to Nov 12).

Curated 🧠 this week by @peterirwin.bsky.social @henrykszad.bsky.social @zubayra.bsky.social.

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The Uyghur Reader: Stories We’re Following (Issue 12) - Uyghur Human Rights Project
Welcome to the twelfth issue of the Uyghur Reader, a biweekly content roundup curated by the staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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📊 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.

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July 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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💡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.

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How a Casual Online Booking Can Link You, Click by Click, to Repression in East Turkistan - Uyghur Human Rights Project
November 4, 2025 A UHRP Insights column by Dr. Henryk Szadziewski, Director of Research, and Peter Irwin, Associate Director for Research and Advocacy Open your browser, go to Booking.com, and search ...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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"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.

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Tourism to Xinjiang booms as China gives the region a makeover
China has repackaged Xinjiang into a tourist haven, touting "ethnic" experiences that activists say it's trying to erase.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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New UHRP #Insights 💡 by Henryk Szadziewski explores how Lonely Planet’s latest China guide downplays atrocity crimes against Uyghurs by:

➡️ Framing mass repression as “political unrest”
➡️ Recommending tourist sites built on cultural erasure

@henrykszad.bsky.social

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What to See When Traveling Through a Genocide: Travel Guidebooks and the Uyghur Region - Uyghur Human Rights Project
The phrasing obscures much about what has happened in the region since the last one was published in May 2022.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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📰 Issue 11 of the #UyghurReader is out!

A biweekly roundup highlighting essential reporting + analysis on the Uyghur crisis (October 16–29).

Curated 🧠 this week by @peterirwin.bsky.social, @henrykszad.bsky.social, and Adaire Criner.

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The Uyghur Reader: Stories We’re Following (Issue 11) - Uyghur Human Rights Project
Welcome to the eleventh issue of the Uyghur Reader, a biweekly content roundup curated by the staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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"With the world’s only independent Uyghur-language news service shuttered, China’s propaganda will fester without a potent and effective accountability check."

@radiofreeasiapr.bsky.social: funding uncertainty driving remaining staff to stop delivering news for now.

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After 29 years, RFA is on pause
From the executive editor: funding uncertainty is driving RFA’s remaining teams to stop delivering the news for now
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October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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"Xilinhot, a city in Inner Mongolia, announced plans to collect blood samples to update an identification database [...]"

China collected DNA and blood samples in the Uyghur Region in 2017, building a highly problematic database for surveillance.

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October 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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After fleeing China, Zeynure + Idris Hasan thought they were safe, but China's #TransnationalRepression led to Idris' arbitrary detention in Morocco.

Pressure from Zeynure, orgs like @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social, and the US gov't led to reunion in Canada.

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‘They told me not to speak out’: the woman who took on China – and won her husband’s freedom
After fleeing Chinese repression, Uyghurs Idris and Zeynure Hasan thought their family would be safe. But Beijing’s growing influence led to Idris’s arrest and a long battle to be reunited
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October 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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🆕 New @ishr.ch report shows how a small group of States led by 🇨🇳 China and 🇷🇺 Russia are obstructing and hijacking UN budget negotiations to defund human rights bodies and investigations.

Support for 🇺🇳 UN human rights bodies and investigations is essential.

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New ISHR report reveals how governments work behind the scenes to defund the UN’s human rights work
A groundbreaking report published by ISHR today, reveals for the first time how a small group of States led by China and Russia are obstructing and hijacking budget negotiations at the United Nations…
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October 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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📰 Issue 10 of the #UyghurReader is out!

A biweekly roundup highlighting essential reporting + analysis on the Uyghur crisis (October 2–15), curated by
@henrykszad.bsky.social and @peterirwin.bsky.social

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The Uyghur Reader: Stories We’re Following (Issue 10) - Uyghur Human Rights Project
Welcome to the tenth issue of the Uyghur Reader, a biweekly content roundup curated by the staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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"All five regional groups fielded only as many candidates as there were seats available, turning the vote into a pure formality."

@ishr.ch on this year's wholly uncompetitive Human Rights Council elections.

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UN Human Rights Council membership reshuffled in wholly uncompetitive ‘election’
UN Member States of the General Assembly elected 14 members of the Human Rights Council, divided proportionally across the body’s five official regional groups. All five regional groups fielded only…
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October 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The @adb.org awarded A$246 million in contracts to Chinese conglomerate TBEA, a company linked to Uyghur forced labor and cooperation with the sanctioned Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC).

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October 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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"Political will is critical to the continued effectiveness of the UFLPA," @lauratmurphy.bsky.social + Charlotte Tate write for @csis.org.

@jasminchua.com covers their views on Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act effectiveness.

@sourcingjournal.com.web.brid.gy.

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Three Years On, Does the UFLPA Still Make Sense?
Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department said that China does not fully meet the minimum standards for eliminating human trafficking, nor is it making significant efforts to do so.
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October 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Scholar-activist Dilnur Reyhan faces trial in 🇫🇷 France after protesting Beijing’s atrocities against Uyghurs.

The case follows a pattern of transnational repression—France should drop charges and defend free expression.

@yalkun.bsky.social @benjeannerod.bsky.social
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Uyghur Scholar-Activist Faces Charges in France for Criticizing Beijing
On October 13, a court outside Paris will put on trial Dr. Dilnur Reyhan, a prominent French-Uyghur scholar and activist, and the president of the European Uyghur Institute, for the criminal offense o...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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📡 Suspected Chinese government operatives used ChatGPT to draft surveillance proposals targeting Uyghurs + other "high-risk" groups, according to an OpenAI report.

@snlyngaas.bsky.social @jimsciutto.bsky.social

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Suspected Chinese government operatives used ChatGPT to shape mass surveillance proposals, OpenAI says | CNN Politics
Suspected Chinese government operatives asked ChatGPT to help write proposal for a tool to conduct large-scale surveillance and to help promote another that allegedly scans social media accounts for “...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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"[I]mporters [...] can assess their exposure by carefully tracing their supply chains, even if they can’t trace the chemical itself."

Kharon on supply-chain challenges for caustic soda, on the #UFLPA's priority sector list.

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The UFLPA’s Tricky New Priority: A Chemical That Seeps into Laptops and Apparel and Disappears
Caustic soda, also known as lye, poses a unique challenge for U.S. importers under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: It’s used in a wide range of consumer categories, but it’s invisible in the f...
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October 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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"The white paper reveals three aspects of Xi’s Xinjiang policies: nihilism, denialism, and annihilation," writes Arran Hope, on China's new White Paper ("Guidelines for Governing Xinjiang").

@thejamestownfdn.bsky.social

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Nihilism, Denialism, and Annihilation in New Xinjiang White Paper
Executive Summary: Xi Jinping’s personal imprimatur on the Party-state’s policies in Xinjiang are unambiguous, according to a new white paper published to coincide with a central-level delegation to t...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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"In practice, [Xinjiang Aid] is a comprehensive system of repression, coercion, and assimilation."

New report from Uyghur Rights Monitor traces the policy evolution of the "Xinjiang Aid" program.

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Weaponized “Development”: How Xinjiang Aid Drives Repression - Uyghur Rights Monitor
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched “Xinjiang Aid” (对口援疆) in 1997 as a poverty-alleviation and ethnic-unity program in the Uyghur Region. In practice, it is a comprehensive system of repression...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM