🔋China is accelerating construction of massive chemical plants in the Uyghur Region, reports Victoria Bela for @scmpnews.bsky.social.
The expansion aims to secure industrial dominance amid global supply chain disruptions.
www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
🏭 China’s latest Five-Year Plan embeds forced labor targeting Uyghurs into its industrial strategy, argue Samir Goswami and @nyrolaelima.bsky.social.
The authors, writing in @thehill.com, call for stronger accountability measures.
thehill.com/opinion/ener...
⚖️ A court in Kazakhstan convicted 19 activists involved in a 2025 anti-China protest calling for the release of a detainee in the Uyghur Region.
Zamira Eshanova (@rferl.org.web.brid.gy) reports that the prosecutions followed pressure from Beijing.
www.rferl.org/amp/court-ka...
🇨🇳 China's new regulations allow authorities to punish foreign companies that shift supply chains away from China under political pressure, writes Keith Bradsher for @nytimes.com.
This risks undermining global efforts to counter Uyghur forced labor.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/b...
📰Issue 21 of the #UyghurReader is out!
A biweekly roundup of reporting + analysis on the Uyghur crisis, including forced labor risk, transnational repression, and industrial expansion in the Uyghur Region.
Curated by @henrykszad.bsky.social, Omer Kanat
uhrp.org/uyghur-reade...
UHRP #Insights💡
China is promoting its forced assimilation policies as a model for other nations to follow.
@henrykszad.bsky.social and Adaire Criner break down how China's "Ethnic Unity" Law threatens global human rights protections.
uhrp.org/insights/the...
UHRP #Insights💡
China promotes East Turkistan as a pristine travel destination, but the data tells another story.
@henrykszad.bsky.social analyzes recent air quality data showing 6 of East Asia's 15 most polluted cities are in the Uyghur Region.
Read more:
uhrp.org/insights/new...
📽️ Film screening & discussion with Uyghur poet and filmmaker Aziz Isa Elkun
Join us for "An Unanswered Telephone Call" and a conversation on transnational repression & cultural erasure.
🗓 Fri, Apr 10 | 🕑 6 - 7:30 PM ET
📍 1602 L St NW, DC
See you there!
36 years ago, Uyghur protesters in Barin faced brutal state violence, with dozens killed and many detained.
We remember the Barin Uprising as a significant escalation in China's human rights abuses against Uyghurs, and renew our call for accountability.
uhrp.org/statement/uh...
🌍 Uyghurs abroad continue to face intimidation, surveillance, and separation from detained family members.
@yalkun.bsky.social of @hrw.org writes that China’s repression extends far beyond its borders, shaping the lives of Uyghur diaspora communities.
www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
🇺🇳 China has shut down scrutiny of its human rights record at the UN, including by blocking groups like @uhrp.org from UN accreditation.
Allison Lombardo (@thehill.com) warns that the U.S. pulling back at the UN enables China to expand influence.
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
🇨🇦 Reporting by @eliotchen.bsky.social for @thewirechina.bsky.social highlights how controversy over MP Michael Ma’s remarks questioning forced labor has exposed gaps between Canada’s human rights commitments and weak enforcement on Uyghur forced labor imports.
www.thewirechina.com/2026/03/27/c...
📃China's new "ethnic unity" law codifies Pan Yue's blueprint for assimilation into China's legal system.
@abletturdi.bsky.social (@uyghurmonitor.bsky.social) analyzes the policy's development and effects.
www.uyghurrightsmonitor.org/2026/03/27/b...
🇨🇳 China's Five-Year Plan deepens reliance on resources from the Uyghur Region - a strategy that depends exploiting Uyghur labor.
Global Rights Compliance analyzes China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030).
globalrightscompliance.org/strangling-s...
📰Issue 20 of the #UyghurReader is out!
A biweekly roundup of reporting & analysis on the Uyghur crisis, including forced labor risk, "ethnic unity" policy, and transnational repression.
Curated by @henrykszad.bsky.social and Omer Kanat.
uhrp.org/uyghur-reade...
🇺🇳UN Special Procedures are one of the few international mechanisms accessible to Uyghur human rights defenders.
We welcome this updated guide from @ishr.ch (now including Uyghur-language content!) making these tools easier to access.
Canadian MP Michael Ma's recent remarks dismiss years of credible reporting on Uyghur forced labor.
“I don’t believe in reports” is not an acceptable response to evidence of human rights abuses.
uhrp.org/statement/uh...
The 🇨🇦 Canadian government MUST demand his immediate release.
Read more via rwchr.bsky.social
www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/news/2026...
For two decades, Huseyin been denied his rights and cut off from his family.
China continues to deny Canada consular access, and his wife, Kamila, has received no updates since 2015.
@amnesty.org said he was "falsely accused… of serious offenses because of his activities in support of Uyghur rights."
On April 19, 2007, @uhrp.org revealed he was sentenced to life in prison on charges of “terrorist activities” and “plotting to split the country."
20 years ago today, Huseyin Celil - a Canadian citizen, imam, and Uyghur activist - was detained by Uzbek police and deported to China at Beijing’s behest.
uhrp.org/insights/lea...
🚨China again blocked @uhrp.org from UN accreditation -- while Chinese gov-linked orgs were approved.
Grateful to Allison Lombardo (@thehill.com) for spotlighting how Beijing shuts out independent human rights voices, especially as U.S. pulls back.
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
Join us for a virtual Uyghur advocacy meet-up to urge Congress to take action on transnational repression!
📅Wed, April 1, 12PM ET
📍 Link upon registration
Register here: forms.gle/69FPUX4V7n1x...
@cuyghurs.bsky.social @uyghurassociation.bsky.social
The Select Committee on China's new report underscores what Uyghur advocates have long warned -- when Beijing reshapes global institutions like the UN, human rights are sidelined.
chinaselectcommittee.house.gov/media/press-...
This #Eid marks a decade since my last visit to my homeland where Beijing has committed atrocity crimes against Uyghurs. I chose to speak out for my father and others and that choice cost me a disconnection, maybe forever, from those I love back home. www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
White crescent moon and star on textured blue background. White text reading "Eid al-Fitr Mubarak!" in English and Uyghur language
Eid Mubarak from all of us at @uhrp.org 🌙
Today is also a painful that reminder Uyghurs in East Turkistan cannot celebrate freely. Basic acts of faith—fasting, praying, owning a Qur’an—are criminalized.
May this day renew our commitment to justice. #EidMubarak
📰Issue 19 of the #UyghurReader is out!
A biweekly roundup of reporting & analysis on the Uyghur crisis, including Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act enforcement and China's new "ethnic unity" law.
uhrp.org/uyghur-reade...
The 2026 Freedom in the World report from
@freedomhouse.bsky.social highlights urgent concerns -- ongoing forced labor, assimilative state-run boarding schools, digital surveillance -- a critical reminder of the need to maintain focus on the Uyghur crisis.
freedomhouse.org/country/chin...
UHRP is glad to join 30+ organizations (coordinated by
@freedomhouse.bsky.social) urging US lawmakers to advance the #TransnationalRepression Policy Act (H.R. 4829/S.2525)
Congress must act to protect diaspora communities from authoritarian govts.
Read the joint letter:
uhrp.org/statement/jo...
China's new law forces Uyghurs & other ethnic groups to “blend in.”
“Now the Chinese government is demanding this ideological uniformity not only within its territory but also abroad…That is what you call transnational repression,” @yalkun.bsky.social of @hrw.org
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/w...