Press Releases

CFU Urges Volker Türk to Hold China Accountable

CFU Press Release For Immediate Release October 17, 2022, 2:30 PM ET Rushan Abbas: rushan@campaignforuyghurs.org, (559) 375-3571 campaignforuyghurs.org As Volker Türk assumes his office as the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights today, Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) urges the

UNHRC Member States Fail to Defend Uyghurs’ Rights

CFU Press Release For Immediate Release October 6 2022, 09:15 PM ET Rushan Abbas: rushan@campaignforuyghurs.org, (559) 375-3571 campaignforuyghurs.org Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) is disappointed in the failure to pass a vote to hold a debate at the United Nations Human Rights

CFU Concerned as Travel Suspended in East Turkistan

Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) is concerned about the total lockdown of East Turkistan (called the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by China), as Chinese authorities impose increasingly stringent measures against the Uyghur and Turkic population as part of China’s Covid Zero

CFU Welcomes Call for Debate by U.S. Government at UNHRC

CFU Press Release For Immediate Release September 28, 2022 10:00 AM EDT Contact: Rushan Abbas +1 (559) 375-3571 rushan@campaignforuyghurs.org www.campaignforuyghurs.org Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) welcomes a call by the U.S. government and other like minded countries for the UN Human

Four Years Since Dr. Gulshan Abbas’s Forced Disappearance

CFU Press Release For Immediate Release September 11, 2022 10:30 AM EDT Contact: Rushan Abbas +1 (559) 375-3571 rushan@campaignforuyghurs.org www.campaignforuyghurs.org This Sunday, Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) marks four years since Dr. Gulshan Abbas, sister of founder and Executive Director Rushan Abbas,

Chinese Regime Must End Extreme Covid Lockdowns in East Turkistan

CFU Press Release For Immediate Release September 9 2022 10:30 AM EDT Contact: Rushan Abbas, rushan@campaignforuyghurs.org +1 (559) 375-3571 www.campaignforuyghurs.org Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) demands that the Chinese regime cease its so-called “Zero-Covid Policy” in East Turkistan. In recent weeks there

CFU Applauds Calls by UN Experts for Investigation After Uyghur Report

CFU Press Release For Immediate Release September 8 2022 10:00 AM EDT Contact: Rushan Abbas, rushan@campaignforuyghurs.org, +1 (559) 375-3571 www.campaignforuyghurs.org Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) welcomes the recent call by a group of UN Special Procedure mandate-holders. They welcomed and supported

CFU Demands Action on UN Uyghur Human Rights Report

CFU Press Release For Immediate Release August 31 2022, 8:15 PM ET Rushan Abbas: rushan@campaignforuyghurs.org, (559) 375-3571 campaignforuyghurs.org With the long-awaited release of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report on human rights violations by the Chinese Communist Party

CFU Remembers Uyghurs on International Day of the Disappeared

CFU Press Release For Immediate Release August 30 2022, 2:00 PM ET Rushan Abbas: rushan@campaignforuyghurs.org, (559) 375-3571 campaignforuyghurs.org On today’s International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Campaign For Uyghurs (CFU) remembers those who the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has attempted to