'While the book is a document of what has been lost, it is also a record of a historical disruption, and a remembrance for the future,' writes UHRP's @HenrykSzad in @ChinaBksReview.

Kevin Bubriski's Kashgar photo book includes text + poems by Tahir H. Izgil.
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'[A]ccording to a 2023 report by the [Uyghur Human Rights Project], China’s growing influence over some host countries undermines 'any political or humanitarian will to recognise and duly protect Uyghur refugees.''

Thailand must release Uyghurs detained for a decade.
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'[A]ccording to a 2023 report by the [Uyghur Human Rights Project], China’s growing influence over some host countries undermines 'any political or humanitarian will to recognise and duly protect Uyghur refugees.''

Thailand must release Uyghurs detained for a decade.
bangkokpost.com/thailand/gener…

'A Record of Old Kashgar'
The Uyghur city in Xinjiang has been disrupted by outside forces through history — of which Chinese rebuilding is the latest change. A book of images and stories records what it once was.
Read Henryk Szadziewski's review:
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There are over 1900 elderly victims documented as serving prison terms (potential death sentences): shahit.biz/elderlysentenc…

Name: Baqytkeldi Adu
Age: 59
Status: serving a 26-year sentence (Qarabura Prison)

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'UNHCR is the world’s foremost refugee resettlement agency, so it’s difficult to accept that limits on access preclude them from addressing the issue in other ways,' said Peter Irwin for UHRP.

Uyghurs continue to languish in 🇹🇭 detention after 10 years.
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This is what Beijing's mass persecution in Xinjiang looks like: 'An estimated 1 in 26 Uyghurs and other non-Han people in the Uyghur Region are imprisoned, making up a third of China’s total prison population.' uhrp.org/insights/uhrp-…

GOOD NEWS: HUGO BOSS Corporate has agreed to a settlement in an alternative dispute resolution w/ 28 CSOs BUT 7 companies are STILL being investigated in Canada for their supply chain links to #UyghurForcedLabour including: GUESS Levi's® Ralph Lauren Nike Walmart Diesel & ZARA.

UHRP, Uyghur American Association & Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) have written a letter to Italian Ambassador Mariangela Zappia urging the Italian gov to investigate import of goods from the China-Europe Railway Express. State-sponsored forced labor is pervasive in the Uyghur Region.

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'Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples are imprisoned at an estimated rate of 3,814 per 100,000 people — 47 times higher than China’s overall rate of 80 per 100,000.'
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'Uyghur and Tibetan groups held marches in central Paris on Sunday, the day that Xi arrived in Europe for the first time since 2019.'

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'Sociologist Dr. Dilnur Reyhan 🖋📚🌳🌈 , a French national of Uyghur origin, calls on President Emmanuel Macron not to remain silent on Beijing's genocidal policy when hosting Xi Jinping.'

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Today is #UyghurDoppaDay !

'International companies cannot responsibly operate in Xinjiang and should leave the western Chinese region due to forced labor concerns, a U.S. Labor Department official said on Tuesday.'

Companies must end their complicity in #UyghurForcedLabor .

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'The 2023 report by UHRP gathered insights from 11 Uyghur asylum seekers based in Türkiye, Pakistan, and India, all of whom shared the feeling that UNHCR was “inaccessible, unresponsive, and even irrelevant to them”.' - The New Humanitarian

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An estimated 1 in 26 #Uyghurs have been jailed, accounting for a third of China’s prison population.

'The actual situation in #Xinjiang may even be worse, said UHRP senior researcher Ben Carrdus, who wrote the report.' -Radio Free Asia

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'The E.U.’s ban follows related measures by the ILO to strengthen its protections against forced labor as a result of similar concerns about supply chains and labor conditions in China.' - China Digital Times

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