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Uyghur Human Rights Project was founded in 2004 by the Uyghur American Association, and have eight full-time staff. [1] The project was founded with a grant from the National Endowment for Democracy, and became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax-exempt organization in 2016.
In a 2019 CNN interview, Nury Turkel, former head of the Uyghur American Association and chairman of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, discussing cybersecurity issues encountered by these organizations, reported that the UAA and UHRP, "were constantly attacked. Our websites were shut down at times, and I was personally the target of email-based ...
In 2019 the Uyghur Human Rights Project identified 386 Uyghur intellectuals who had been imprisoned, detained, or disappeared since early 2017. [268] Uyghur economist Ilham Tohti was sentenced to life in prison in 2014. Amnesty International called his sentence unjustified and deplorable. [269]
Michael Polak, a British lawyer representing the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur Human Rights Project, is preparing a “universal jurisdiction criminal complaint” to submit to the criminal ...
Rahile Dawut, who is widely believed by academics and rights groups to have been taken into official custody in 2017, is among what the non-profit Uyghur Human Rights Project in 2021 estimated to ...
Uyghur Muslim rights activist who tried to escape oppression by fleeing his homeland with his family says the Chinese state followed him to Turkey and Morocco. What was once a safe haven for those ...
In February 2022, 2 U.S. lawmakers, Tom Suozzi of New York and Chris Smith of New Jersey, wrote a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, saying that the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and Campaign for Uyghurs made significant contributions to building fraternity between nations and promoting peace by defending the human rights of the ...
The report is based on a database built by Jardine in partnership with the Uyghur Human Rights Project and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs called "China’s Transnational Repression of ...