(WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/8/21) – Representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Uyghur Human Rights Project, Free Uyghur Now, America Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and the Islamic Circle of North America Council for Social Justice (ICNA-CSJ) today delivered a letter to Hilton Worldwide Headquarters (NYSE: HLT) in McLean, Va., giving that corporation one week to end an agreement to license the construction of a Hampton Hotel on the site of a bulldozed mosque in the Uyghur region of China or face a global boycott.
An international coalition of Uyghur groups, Muslim advocacy organizations and human rights groups in the United States and other nations has been formed to campaign for a boycott of Hilton if the corporation does not withdraw from the project by next week. Delivery of that letter comes after several months of communication with Hilton, which so far refused to cancel the project in China.
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BACKGROUNDER:
The Telegraph revealed plans for the project on the site of the bulldozed mosque in June.
SEE: Hilton hotel to be built in Xinjiang after China demolishes Uyghur mosque
CAIR privately and publicly called on Hilton Worldwide to drop a licensing agreement to build a Hampton Hotel on the site of the mosque, but company officials have not met that demand.
In July, CAIR applauded the chairs of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China calling on Hilton Worldwide President and CEO Christopher Nassetta to cancel the agreement to license the construction. CAIR also welcomed the Senate passage of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
SEE: CAIR Welcomes Congressional Commission on China Calling on Hilton to Drop Plan to License Hotel on Site of Demolished Uyghur Mosque
TAKE ACTION: Demand Hilton Hotels to Drop China Project on Site of Bulldozed, Desecrated Uyghur Mosque
In June, Amnesty International released a report describing China’s abuse of its Uyghur Muslim minority as a “dystopian hellscape.”
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