Dr. Sean R. Roberts is an Associate Professor in the Practice of International Affairs and Director of the International Development Studies program at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He has studied the Uyghur people for 30 years, and he is the author of The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority (Princeton University Press, 2020).
The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act (UHRPA), which seeks to pressure China to cease its mass internment, surveillance, and repression of its mostly Muslim Uyghur population, recently was approved by both houses of the U.S. Congress and subsequently signed by President Donald Trump.
