US condemns China’s reported life sentence of acclaimed Uyghur scholar

October 2, 2023 | CNN News | By Simone McCarthy

Rahile Dawut, who is widely believed by academics and rights groups to have been taken into official custody in 2017, is among what the non-profit Uyghur Human Rights Project in 2021 estimated to be more than 300 Uyghur and other Muslim intellectuals detained by the Chinese government amid a broader crackdown.

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