Posts Tagged ‘Ilham Tohti’
A Conversation With Ilham Tohti: Reflections on the 9th Anniversary of His Detention
People are forgetting him, myself included, as prolonged silence does to our memory and short attention spans. Beijing is counting on our forgetfulness. Never mind that, by China’s law, he should be receiving one family visit a month.
Read MoreIlham Tohti Wins 2017 Weimar Human Rights Award
July 3, 2017 On Thursday June 29th the Weimar city council announced that they have awarded this year’s Weimar Human Rights Award to Professor Ilham Tohti for his dedication to advancing the cause of human rights for the Uyghur people. In recognition of “its special historical responsibility and as a symbol of all the anonymous…
Read MoreInternational Community, Please Do Not Let the Uyghurs Become Hopeless
October 3, 2016 By Ilshat Hassan, the Uyghur Human Rights Project Chinese Translator and Research Assistant，Translated from Chinese by N. Morgret By chance I recently had the opportunity to meet with a Uyghur intellectual from East Turkestan who is worried about his country and people. During our brief conversation I listened to his description of…
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