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✍🏼Op-ed by Henryk Szadziewski in The Diplomat Magazine – China’s ‘Ethnic Unity’ Cup: Football and Assimilation in the Uyghur Region

A football tournament is China’s latest propaganda campaign to whitewash its abuses of Uyghur people – and deconstruct Uyghur identity in favor of Chinese “unity.”

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China’s ‘Ethnic Unity’ Cup: Football and Assimilation in the Uyghur Region A football tournament is China’s latest propaganda campaign to whitewash its abuses of Uyghur people – and deconstruct Uyghur identity in favor of Chinese “unity.”

📖 New – A biweekly roundup of essential reporting and analysis on the Uyghur crisis, curated by UHRP staff.

Issue 26: June 11, 2026 – June 24, 2026

🇨🇳 Ethnic Unity Law: China's new Ethnic Unity Law claims the power to hold people abroad liable for "undermining ethnic unity" – while rights groups warn this could expand transnational repression of diaspora communities, including Uyghurs (Reuters).

🇨🇦 Forced-Labor Imports: Canada needs stronger forced-labor legislation to prevent imports linked to Uyghur forced labor from entering the market, argue Mehmet Tohti, Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, Sarah Teich, and Charles Burton, writing for The Globe and Mail.

⚖️ Flawed Trial: FIDH - International Federation for Human Rights condemned the death sentence handed down by a Thai court to two Uyghur men convicted in connection with the 2015 Bangkok bombing, citing allegations of serious due process violations.

📡 Exporting Mass Surveillance: China is promoting mass surveillance practices used against Uyghurs as model for other nations to follow, including Afghanistan, warns Tommaso Franco, writing for Fair Observer.

📖 Future Amid Loss: In a moving reflection, Rizwana Ilham writes about growing up in a generation of Uyghurs told they were the future – only to later see their culture and community systematically dismantled (UNPO).

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The Uyghur Reader: Stories We’re Following (Issue 26) - Uyghur Human Rights Project Issue 26:  June 11, 2026 – June 24, 2026 Welcome to the twenty-sixth issue of the Uyghur Reader, a biweekly content roundup curated by the staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.  Each issue features carefully selected articles, reports, and publications from media outlets, academic institutio...

🕯️37 years after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, UHRP stands with the victims, their families, and all who seek truth, accountability, and freedom.

The CCP’s impunity after June 4 paved the way for the atrocities we see today.

The Chinese government must acknowledge the truth and end the repression of those seeking justice.

Uyghur Human Rights Project Commemorates the 37th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre - Uyghur Human Rights Project For immediate releaseJune 4, 2026, 10 a.m. EDTContact: Omer Kanat, +1 (202) 790-1795; Adaire Criner, +1 (612) 720-1136 Thirty-seven years after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) violently suppressed the peaceful pro-democracy protests in Beijing on June 4, 1989, the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP...