Uyghur Human Rights Project
@uhrp.org
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) promotes the rights for Uyghurs in East Turkistan through research, reporting, and advocacy.
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🇵🇸 We draw parallels to reporting on how Booking and Expedia profit from war crimes and support illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Continued business presence in these contexts helps normalize repression.
@markdummett.bsky.social @amnesty.org
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...
Continued business presence in these contexts helps normalize repression.
@markdummett.bsky.social @amnesty.org
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...
Destination: Occupation. Time to withdraw from illegal Israeli settlements?
Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Expedia and Booking.com are turning war crimes into a tourist attraction with hundreds of listings in Israeli settlements.
www.amnesty.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
🇵🇸 We draw parallels to reporting on how Booking and Expedia profit from war crimes and support illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Continued business presence in these contexts helps normalize repression.
@markdummett.bsky.social @amnesty.org
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...
Continued business presence in these contexts helps normalize repression.
@markdummett.bsky.social @amnesty.org
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...
See their April research on dramatic 📈 increase in international hotel chains in the Uyghur region.
Major chains Accor, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Marriott, Wyndham all operating amidst atrocities, some directly connected to abuses.
uhrp.org/report/it-do...
Major chains Accor, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Marriott, Wyndham all operating amidst atrocities, some directly connected to abuses.
uhrp.org/report/it-do...
November 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
See their April research on dramatic 📈 increase in international hotel chains in the Uyghur region.
Major chains Accor, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Marriott, Wyndham all operating amidst atrocities, some directly connected to abuses.
uhrp.org/report/it-do...
Major chains Accor, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Marriott, Wyndham all operating amidst atrocities, some directly connected to abuses.
uhrp.org/report/it-do...
🏨 In a report with Peter Irwin and Ben Carrdus, ("It Does Matter Where You Stay: International Hotel Chains in East Turkistan") they reveal a significant growth of international hotel chains in the Uyghur Region amidst genocide, and their connections to human rights abuses.
uhrp.org/report/it-do...
uhrp.org/report/it-do...
It Does Matter Where You Stay: International Hotel Chains in East Turkistan - Uyghur Human Rights Project
Five international hotel chains—Accor, Hilton, InterContinental (IHG), Marriott, and Wyndham—currently operate in the Uyghur Region amidst ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide.
uhrp.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
🏨 In a report with Peter Irwin and Ben Carrdus, ("It Does Matter Where You Stay: International Hotel Chains in East Turkistan") they reveal a significant growth of international hotel chains in the Uyghur Region amidst genocide, and their connections to human rights abuses.
uhrp.org/report/it-do...
uhrp.org/report/it-do...
🇪🇺 "Genocide Tours: European Travel Companies in East Turkistan" (2024) takes a similar approach targeting several European tour operators running tours to the Uyghur Region.
uhrp.org/report/genoc...
uhrp.org/report/genoc...
Genocide Tours: European Travel Companies in East Turkistan - Uyghur Human Rights Project
New research from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) highlights the ongoing problem of organized travel to the Uyghur region amid crimes against humanity and genocide. The briefing, Genocide Tours...
uhrp.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
🇪🇺 "Genocide Tours: European Travel Companies in East Turkistan" (2024) takes a similar approach targeting several European tour operators running tours to the Uyghur Region.
uhrp.org/report/genoc...
uhrp.org/report/genoc...
🚄 "Genocide Tours: International Travel Companies in East Turkistan" (2023) looks at travel companies running tours to the region and repeating government narratives erasing Uyghur identity.
uhrp.org/report/genoc...
uhrp.org/report/genoc...
Genocide Tours: International Travel Companies in East Turkistan
Prominent international travel companies are currently offering guided tours to East Turkistan amidst genocide and crimes against humanity.
uhrp.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
🚄 "Genocide Tours: International Travel Companies in East Turkistan" (2023) looks at travel companies running tours to the region and repeating government narratives erasing Uyghur identity.
uhrp.org/report/genoc...
uhrp.org/report/genoc...
See more from Szadziewski on tourism in the Uyghur Region:
🗺️ Territorialization on tour: The tourist gaze along the Silk Road Economic Belt in Kashgar, China" on how China uses tourism to force Uyghurs to present a sanitized version of themselves for visitors.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🗺️ Territorialization on tour: The tourist gaze along the Silk Road Economic Belt in Kashgar, China" on how China uses tourism to force Uyghurs to present a sanitized version of themselves for visitors.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Territorialization on tour: The tourist gaze along the Silk Road Economic Belt in Kashgar, China
Since 2009, and over the following decade, Kashgar Old City—an historical space of Uyghur culture and Islam and home to 220,000 residents—was largely …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
See more from Szadziewski on tourism in the Uyghur Region:
🗺️ Territorialization on tour: The tourist gaze along the Silk Road Economic Belt in Kashgar, China" on how China uses tourism to force Uyghurs to present a sanitized version of themselves for visitors.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🗺️ Territorialization on tour: The tourist gaze along the Silk Road Economic Belt in Kashgar, China" on how China uses tourism to force Uyghurs to present a sanitized version of themselves for visitors.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🕵🏼 UN report on transnational repression
Investigation finds PRC targeting Uyghur activists and families beyond its borders.
www.icij.org/investigatio...
Investigation finds PRC targeting Uyghur activists and families beyond its borders.
www.icij.org/investigatio...
China's targeting of human rights activists grows: UN report
A new report recounts recent reprisals from two dozen countries and underscores ICIJ’s reporting on Beijing's tactics to silence critics abroad.
www.icij.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🕵🏼 UN report on transnational repression
Investigation finds PRC targeting Uyghur activists and families beyond its borders.
www.icij.org/investigatio...
Investigation finds PRC targeting Uyghur activists and families beyond its borders.
www.icij.org/investigatio...
✊🏽 Why the world must sustain pressure on China
Explainer on ongoing crimes in East Turkistan and why global advocacy must not fade.
traversingtradition.com/2025/10/15/c...
Explainer on ongoing crimes in East Turkistan and why global advocacy must not fade.
traversingtradition.com/2025/10/15/c...
China’s Occupation and Genocide of East Turkistan: Why the World Must Sustain Its Outcry
Uyghur-American advocate Aydin Anwar outlines the severe oppression faced by Uyghurs in East Turkistan, documenting personal experiences and historical context. It discusses the Chinese government&…
traversingtradition.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
✊🏽 Why the world must sustain pressure on China
Explainer on ongoing crimes in East Turkistan and why global advocacy must not fade.
traversingtradition.com/2025/10/15/c...
Explainer on ongoing crimes in East Turkistan and why global advocacy must not fade.
traversingtradition.com/2025/10/15/c...
🌍 New data on coal & forced labor risk
Research flags expansion of coal-chemical industry in the Uyghur Region tied to state repression.
ishr.ch/defenders-to...
Research flags expansion of coal-chemical industry in the Uyghur Region tied to state repression.
ishr.ch/defenders-to...
Report: How States try to defund human rights at the UN
See press release here. In its new report ‘Budget battles at the UN: How States try to defund human rights’, the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) reveals how a small group of States are…
ishr.ch
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🌍 New data on coal & forced labor risk
Research flags expansion of coal-chemical industry in the Uyghur Region tied to state repression.
ishr.ch/defenders-to...
Research flags expansion of coal-chemical industry in the Uyghur Region tied to state repression.
ishr.ch/defenders-to...
✍🏼 Reclaiming narrative power
Dilnur Reyhan challenges colonial frameworks shaping how Uyghurs are discussed worldwide.
globalvoices.org/2025/10/23/d...
Dilnur Reyhan challenges colonial frameworks shaping how Uyghurs are discussed worldwide.
globalvoices.org/2025/10/23/d...
Decolonizing the Chinese narrative on Uyghurs: The mission of sociologist Dilnur Reyhan
Global Voices interviewed Uyghur sociologist Dilnur Reyhan to better understand the challenges facing the Uyghur diaspora, especially in Europe.
globalvoices.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
✍🏼 Reclaiming narrative power
Dilnur Reyhan challenges colonial frameworks shaping how Uyghurs are discussed worldwide.
globalvoices.org/2025/10/23/d...
Dilnur Reyhan challenges colonial frameworks shaping how Uyghurs are discussed worldwide.
globalvoices.org/2025/10/23/d...
⚖️ Uyghurs detained abroad under PRC pressure
Turkey and Morocco ramp up arrests, showing Beijing’s reach over global law enforcement.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Turkey and Morocco ramp up arrests, showing Beijing’s reach over global law enforcement.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘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
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
⚖️ Uyghurs detained abroad under PRC pressure
Turkey and Morocco ramp up arrests, showing Beijing’s reach over global law enforcement.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Turkey and Morocco ramp up arrests, showing Beijing’s reach over global law enforcement.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
🕊️ Uyghur life before mass repression
A reminder that Uyghurs once lived with far more cultural and religious freedom in China.
theworld.org/segments/202...
A reminder that Uyghurs once lived with far more cultural and religious freedom in China.
theworld.org/segments/202...
Uyghurs weren't always oppressed in China - The World from PRX
In a classroom in western China, children once learned to sing and count in the language of their ancestors — Uyghur. Then, the doors were locked, and founder Abduweli Ayup went from teacher to enemy ...
theworld.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🕊️ Uyghur life before mass repression
A reminder that Uyghurs once lived with far more cultural and religious freedom in China.
theworld.org/segments/202...
A reminder that Uyghurs once lived with far more cultural and religious freedom in China.
theworld.org/segments/202...
📻 RFA signs off after U.S. defunding
@radiofreeasiapr.bsky.social a leadership warns shuttering Uyghur and China desks risks truth in authoritarian spaces.
www.rfa.org/english/worl...
@radiofreeasiapr.bsky.social a leadership warns shuttering Uyghur and China desks risks truth in authoritarian spaces.
www.rfa.org/english/worl...
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
www.rfa.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
📻 RFA signs off after U.S. defunding
@radiofreeasiapr.bsky.social a leadership warns shuttering Uyghur and China desks risks truth in authoritarian spaces.
www.rfa.org/english/worl...
@radiofreeasiapr.bsky.social a leadership warns shuttering Uyghur and China desks risks truth in authoritarian spaces.
www.rfa.org/english/worl...
🏭 "Development" as repression:
@uyghurmonitor.bsky.social uncovers how Beijing’s Xinjiang Aid program embeds forced labor and ideological control under the rhetoric of “poverty alleviation,” dispersing Uyghurs into factories and erasing community life.
www.uyghurrightsmonitor.org/2025/10/01/w...
@uyghurmonitor.bsky.social uncovers how Beijing’s Xinjiang Aid program embeds forced labor and ideological control under the rhetoric of “poverty alleviation,” dispersing Uyghurs into factories and erasing community life.
www.uyghurrightsmonitor.org/2025/10/01/w...
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...
www.uyghurrightsmonitor.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🏭 "Development" as repression:
@uyghurmonitor.bsky.social uncovers how Beijing’s Xinjiang Aid program embeds forced labor and ideological control under the rhetoric of “poverty alleviation,” dispersing Uyghurs into factories and erasing community life.
www.uyghurrightsmonitor.org/2025/10/01/w...
@uyghurmonitor.bsky.social uncovers how Beijing’s Xinjiang Aid program embeds forced labor and ideological control under the rhetoric of “poverty alleviation,” dispersing Uyghurs into factories and erasing community life.
www.uyghurrightsmonitor.org/2025/10/01/w...
🎓 Campus complicity:
Zilala Mamat exposes how Cornell University’s partnerships with Chinese institutions endanger Uyghur students and reflect a broader failure of universities to uphold human rights when engaging China.
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
Zilala Mamat exposes how Cornell University’s partnerships with Chinese institutions endanger Uyghur students and reflect a broader failure of universities to uphold human rights when engaging China.
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
MAMAT | Cornell’s China Ties Threaten Its Students, And It Doesn’t Care
On the 76th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, Opinion Columnist Zilala Mamat '26 puts Cornell's China ties into Uyghur perspective.
www.cornellsun.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🎓 Campus complicity:
Zilala Mamat exposes how Cornell University’s partnerships with Chinese institutions endanger Uyghur students and reflect a broader failure of universities to uphold human rights when engaging China.
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
Zilala Mamat exposes how Cornell University’s partnerships with Chinese institutions endanger Uyghur students and reflect a broader failure of universities to uphold human rights when engaging China.
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...