Researchers will release ground-breaking analysis of new evidence
documenting the program of mass DETENTION IN THE UYGHUR REGION.
Co-sponsors: Uyghur Human Rights Project
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Speakers:
Dr. Adrian Zenz is a Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Victims of
Communism Memorial Foundation (non-resident), and supervises PhD
students at the European School of Culture and Theology at Korntal,
Germany. His research focus is on China’s ethnic policy and public
recruitment in Tibet and the Uyghur region. He is author of
“Tibetanness under Threat” and co-editor of “Mapping Amdo:
Dynamics of Change.”
Mr. Abduweli Ayup is a Uyghur linguist, currently living in Bergen,
Norway, as a Fellow with the International Cities of Refuge Network
(ICORN). He received his Master's Degree in Linguistics from the
University of Kansas in 2011. After returning to China, he promoted
social and cultural rights through promotion of Uyghur-language
education. He was imprisoned in 2013-2014, and suffered months of
incommunicado detention and torture. His career as a human-rights
defender and advocate for linguistic rights is covered in an in-depth
UHRP report published in May 2019, "Abduweli Ayup and the Movement for
Uyghur Mother Tongue-Based Education."
Dr. Elise Anderson is Senior Program Officer for Research and Advocacy
at the Uyghur Human Rights Project. She is the lead author of the UHRP
report. She earned dual PhD degrees in Central Eurasian Studies and
Ethnomusicology from Indiana University-Bloomington in August 2019.
Her doctoral research was based on years of primary research in the
Uyghur region and focuses on the relationships between Uyghur music
and politics. Dr. Anderson is fluent in Uyghur and proficient in
Mandarin, and is also a practicing musician and dancer. In 2019, she
served as Liu Xiaobo Fellow at the Congressional-Executive Commission
on China, a U.S. federal commission tasked with monitoring the status
of human rights and the rule of law in the PRC.
Mr. Omer Kanat is Executive Director of the Uyghur Human Rights
Project (UHRP), a human rights research and advocacy organization
based in Washington, DC. He has two decades of experience as a
broadcast journalist. From 1999 to 2009 Mr. Kanat was Senior Editor at
Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur Service, where he covered the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq, edited Uyghur-language news, conducted exclusive
interviews with prominent figures in Inner Asia, including His
Holiness the Dalai Lama, and reported on breaking news around the
world. Prior to his work at Radio Free Asia, he was Editor and later
Senior Editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service.
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