News and Analysis

Rebiya Kadeer's Sons Receive Prison Sentence, Fines, for Alleged Economic Crimes 

Government Increases Controls Over Muslim Pilgrimages

City in Xinjiang Mandates Exclusive Use of Mandarin Chinese in Schools

Civil Servant Recruitment in Xinjiang Favors Han Chinese

Rebiya Kadeer's Sons Charged With State Security and Economic Crimes

Xinjiang Government Seizes, Confiscates Political and Religious Publications

Uighurs Face Extreme Security Measures; Official Statements on Terrorism Conflict

Xinjiang Focuses on Reducing Births in Minority Areas to Curb Population Growth

Xinjiang Reports High Rate of Population Increase

Xinjiang Government Promotes Mandarin Chinese Use Through Bilingual Education

CECC Annual Reports

2005 Annual Report

• Complete Report
• Special Focus for 2005: China's Minorities and Government Implementation of the Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law
• Xinjiang-Uighurs Section 

2004 Annual Report

• Complete Report
• Xinjiang-Uighurs Section

• Complete Report
• Xinjiang-Uighurs Section

• Complete Report
• Xinjiang-Uighurs Section

CECC Hearings

Religious Freedom in China (November 18, 2004)

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Statements by Members of the Commission

• Congressman Jim Leach

Statements of Witnesses

• Ms. Preeta D. Bansal
  Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
  Washington, D.C.
• Ms. Ngawang Sangdrol
  International Campaign for Tibet,
  Washington, D.C.
• Pastor Bob Fu
  President, China Aid Association
  Midland, TX
• Mr. Joseph Kung
  President, The Cardinal Kung Foundation
  Stamford, CT
• Dr. Pitman Potter
  Director, Institute of Asian Research and Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
  Vancouver, B.C.

Will Religion Flourish Under China's New Leadership? (July 24, 2003)

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Statements of Witnesses

• Mr. Randall Schriver
  Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
  Department of State
  Washington, D.C.
• Ms. Felice D. Gaer
  Vice Chair
  U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
  Washington, D.C.
• Dr. Joseph Fewsmith
  Professor and Director of East Asia Interdisciplinary Studies
  Boston University
  Boston, MA
• Mr. Charles D. Lovejoy, Jr.
  Associate
  U.S. Catholic China Bureau
  South Orange, NJ
• Dr. David B.T. Aikman
  Former Senior Correspondent, TIME Magazine
  Washington, D.C.
• Dr. Jacqueline M. Armijo-Hussein
  Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies
  Stanford Univeristy
  Palo Alto, CA

Taming the Dragon: Can Legal Reform Foster Respect for Human Rights in China? (April 11, 2002)

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Statements by Members of the Commission

• Senator Max Baucus
• Congressman Doug Bereuter
• Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur
• Congressman Joseph Pitts

• John Kamm
  The Dui Hua Foundation
• Jonathan Hecht
  Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow
  The China Law Center
  Yale Law School
• T. Kumar
  Advocacy Director for Asian and Pacific
  Amnesty International USA
• Michael Posner
  The Lawyers Committee For Human Rights

Human Rights in the Context of the Rule of Law (February 7, 2002)

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Statements by Members of the Commission

• Senator Max Baucus
• Congressman Doug Bereuter
• Congressman Sander Levin
• Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur
• Senator Carl Levin
• Senator Bob Smith
• Senator Dianne Feinstein
• Congressman Frank Wolf
• Congressman Joseph Pitts

• William P. Alford
  Henry L. Stimson Professor and Director of East Asian Legal Studies
  Harvard Law School
• James V. Feinerman
  James M. Morita Professor of Asian Legal Studies and Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs
  Georgetown University Law Center
• Mike Jendrzejczyk
  Washington Director, Asia Division
• Xiao Qiang
  Executive Director, Human Rights in China

CECC Roundtables

China's Changing Strategic Concerns: The Impact on Human Rights in Xinjiang (November 16, 2005)

Practicing Islam in Today's China: Differing Realities for the Uighurs and the Hui (May 17, 2004)

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Statements of Panelists

• Jonathan N. Lipman
  Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College
• Gardner Bovingdon
  Assistant Professor of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University at Bloomington
• Kahar Barat
  Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University

Open Forum on Human Rights and the Rule of Law in China (September 8, 2003)

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Statements of Panelists

• Kaiser Seyet
  The Uyghur American Association
• Terri Marsh
  Human Rights Attorney
• Timothy Cooper
  Worldrights
• Huang Ciping
  (Chinese Version)
  The Wei Jingsheng Foundation

Additional Statements

• Kery Wilkie Nunez

Open Forum on Human Rights and the Rule of Law in China (March 10, 2003)

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Statements of Panelists

• Roy Zhou
  President, Association of Chinese Student And Scholars of the New York Area
• Fred Crook (PDF)
  Independent Consultant, The China Group
• Chen Yali
  Research Associate, Center for Defense Information
• Lhundup Dorjee
  Washington D.C. area resident speaking on behalf of the Capital Area Tibetan Association (CATA)
• Tenzin
  Washington DC-based Tibetan exile who recently visited Tibet for the first time
• Nuri Turkel
  General Secretary, Uyghur American Association
  Turkel Supplemental Statement
• Greg Walton
  Research consultant focusing on the Internet's impact on human rights
• Ciping Huang
  Chinese language version
  Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition and Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars

Open Forum on Human Rights and the Rule of Law in China (August 5, 2002)

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Statements of Panelists

• Prof. Shiyu Zhou Ph.D.
  University of Pennsylvania
• Derek Wong
  Summer Intern, Senate Agriculture Committee, Student, University of Pennsylvania
• Sokrat Saydahmat
  Member, Board of Directors, Uighur American Association
• Christine Shea
  Correspondence Campaign Director, Amnesty International
• Raj Purohit
  Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
• Enhebatu Togochog
  President, Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center

Ethnic Minorities in China: Tibetans and Uighurs (June 10, 2002)

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Statements of Panelists

• Bhuchung K. Tsering
  Director, International Campaign for Tibet
• Elliot Sperling
  Chair of Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University
• Arthur Holcombe
  President, Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund
• Dr. Justin Rudelson
  Executive Director, University of Maryland Institute for Global Chinese Affairs
• Dolkun Kamberi
  Director of the Uighur Service for Radio Free Asia

Web sites

• East Turkistan Information
• East Turkistan Information Center
• International Uyghur Human Rights and Democracy Foundation
• Uyghur American Association
• Uyghur Canadian Association
• Uyghur Human Rights Project
• World Uyghur Congress

Papers

• Devastating Blows: Religious Repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang (Human Rights Watch/Human Rights in China,2005)
• The Xinjiang Conflict: Uyghur Identity, Language Policy, and Political Discourse (Arienne M. Dwyer, East-West Center Washington, 2005)
• Autonomy in Xinjiang: Han Nationalist Imperatives and Uyghur Discontent (Gardner Bovingdon, East-West Center Washington, 2004)
• Violent Separatism in Xinjiang: A Critical Assessment (James Millward, East-West Center Washington, 2004)
• Demographics and Development in Xinjiang after 1949(Stanley Toops, East-West Center Washington, 2004)
• China: Human Rights Concerns in Xinjiang (Human Rights Watch, 2001)
• "Xinjiang, China's Restive Northwest" (Human Rights Watch, 2000)
  

Web sites

• Hotan Government Web site
• Kashgar Government Web site
• State Ethnic Affairs Commission
• Tianshan Net (Xinjiang Propaganda Department and People’s Daily jointly sponsored site)
• Urumqi Government Web site
• Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (Bingtuan)

Papers

• Government White Paper on "Regional Autonomy for Ethnic Minorities in China"(State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China, 2005)
• Government White Paper on "History and Development of Xinjiang"
  (State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China, 2003)
• Government White Paper on "National Minorities Policy and Its Practice in China" (State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China, 2000)

• Central Asian Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization , University of Washington Seattle, WA 
• Central University for Nationalities Beijing, PRC
• The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University Washington, DC
• Chinese Ethnic Nationalities Program, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Hawaii Manoa, HI
• Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, IN
• The Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Harvard University
  Cambridge, MA
• Uyghur Language Program, University of Kansas Lawrence, KS