The George W. Bush Institute, China Aid, Freedom House, and the Uyghur Human Rights Project
Invite You to a Special Briefing
China's Persecution of Uyghurs at Home and Abroad
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Capitol Visitors Center, HVC-201
The Chinese government has established a police state equipped with cutting-edge surveillance technology in the Uighur homeland; significantly suppressed freedoms of religion, expression, and assembly; and swept an estimated 1.5 to 2 million people into a massive system of so-called “re-education camps.” New evidence of forced labor, torture, and deaths in custody at the camps and throughout the region continues to emerge on a daily basis.
Communist Party control and persecution of Uighurs extends beyond China's borders. Uighurs outside China are also subject to extraterritorial surveillance and coercion. UHRP's latest report, Repression Across Borders: the CCP's Illegal Harassment and Coercion of Uyghur Americans, documents the ongoing and flagrant violations of federal law on U.S. soil. Agents of a foreign power are surveilling and terrorizing American citizens, with threats to send their remaining family members to the camps if they speak out about what is happening in the Uighur region. Human rights groups are calling on the U.S. government to take effective diplomatic and law-enforcement measures.
On October 7 and 8, 2019, the U.S. government announced visa sanctions and export-control restrictions on Chinese government entities and private companies implicated in human rights violations in the Uighur region. Pending bills in Congress would create a legislative mandate for an effective U.S. and global response.
Speakers:
Ferkat Jawdat, Uyghur American
Omer Kanat, Director, Uyghur Human Rights Project
Doug Robison, Board Chair, ChinaAid
Moderator:
Annie Boyajian, Director of Advocacy, Freedom House
Co-Sponsors:
The George W. Bush Institute, ChinaAid, Freedom House, and the Uyghur Human Rights Project
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