Uyghur American Lawyer Elected As US Commission On International Religious Freedom Chair

June 25, 2022

Uyghur-American lawyer Nury Turkel has been unanimously chosen by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to serve as the US commission’s chair from 2022 to 2023. According to a press release by USCIRF, he is the Chairman of the ‘Board for the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP)’, a Council on Foreign Relations member and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. 

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