About Us


This website is created by the World Uyghur Congress in order to raise awareness of the gross human rights violations of the Uyghur people in East Turkestan (also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China) and to expose China’s broken promises to improve human rights made to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) before Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympic Games.

WUC believes that a country that does not respect human rights but continues to violate them does not deserve to host the Olympics because the Olympic Spirit is about building a “peaceful and better world,” not a world full of torture, unfair trials and constant executions of peaceful dissidents. Building a “peaceful and better world,” as the Olympic Mission states, requires mutual understanding with a “spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.” China lacks such mutual understanding based on the Olympic spirit.

China, as the world’s biggest human rights violator, cannot possibly build a peaceful and better world by continuously and grossly violating the fundamental human rights of the Uyghur people. What China has been practicing since granted the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing violates the Olympic spirit of “friendship, solidarity and fair play.” Today, China executes more people each year than the rest of the world combined, and it only executes Uyghur political prisoners for even nonviolent offenses.

The Olympic Games are not just about athletes from different nations coming together every four years to compete in their respective fields for gold medal. They are held to celebrate the excellence of free human spirit. Although the Olympics is not a political event, but it does have political significance as totalitarian and authoritarian nations try to manipulate it to showcase their triumphs to the world. China, as an authoritarian state, will surely use the occasion to deceive the international community. We should not allow that to happen.

We ask you to join our Olympic campaign to expose and protest China’s gross human rights violations and broken promises to improve them. Please sign our petition and make your voice heard loud and clear.

Thank you!
World Uyghur Congress