Uyghur Human Rights Project

Please join International Republican Institute (IRI) and Uyghur Human Rights Project for a discussion on UHRP's recent report, Fading Ties: Uyghur Family Separation as a Tool of Transnational Repression.

📅 Thursday, May 28, 2026
🕒 3:00 PM ET
📍1225 I (Eye) Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20005

The conversation will feature report author Henryk Szadziewski, who will share additional insights and analysis from his research, followed by a discussion on the broader implications of transnational repression and its impact on Uyghur families worldwide. Light snacks and beverages will be provided.

🔗 RSVP: https://forms.gle/Srg4n1rPHYnQyJPy8

Today is renowned Uyghur scholar Dr. Rahile Dawut's 60th birthday.

Instead of celebrating with her loved ones, she is spending this milestone behind bars, serving a life sentence in a Chinese prison.

Dr. Rahile Dawut is highly respected internationally for her scholarship documenting Uyghur folklore and traditions. Her research is not a crime. Documenting Uyghur culture is not a crime.

China must release Rahile Dawut immediately and free all unjustly detained and imprisoned Uyghur scholars, intellectuals, writers, and cultural leaders.

UHRP Appalled by News of Life Sentence for Professor Rahile Dawut The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) is appalled to learn that Professor Rahile Dawut, a highly respected Uyghur anthropologist, was handed a life sentence by the Chinese authorities in 2018.

New Op-Ed by Omer Kanat:

Trump must put detained Uyghur intellectuals on the agenda for his upcoming meeting with Xi.

Across the Uyghur diaspora in the United States, families are living with the same cruel separation: their relatives, including many of the most respected Uyghur intellectuals of their generation, are imprisoned by the Chinese government.

If Trump sits across from Xi and fails to raise the cases of Uyghur Americans and their families, Beijing will read that omission not as pragmatism, but as weakness.

Read more in The Diplomat Magazine⬇️

Trump Must Put Detained Uyghur Intellectuals on the Agenda for Xi Summit If Trump sits across from Xi and fails to raise the cases of Uyghur Americans and their families, Beijing will read that omission not as pragmatism, but as weakness.

A new report from United States Commission on International Religious Freedom further confirms what we've long warned: China is codifying and escalating its "sinicization of religion" policy – deepening restrictions on religious practice for Uyghur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, and all religious communities.

China's Codification and Escalation of the "Sinicization of Religion" The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Xi Jinping’s rule has systematically intensified its restrictions of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) through a series of laws that it recently passed and promulgated, expanding its coercive “sinicization of religion” policy. This issue update highli...