Ilham Tohti, My Brother
lham was the recipient of the Sakharov Prize in 2019. By then, the world had known that China had placed several millions of Uyghurs in concentration camps and prisons, subjecting them to torture, indoctrination, forced labor, and long prison sentences.
Chinese Lawyers’ ‘Original Sin’ — Speech by Lawyer Li Fangping on the 6th China Human Rights Lawyers Day
Despite the variety of measures taken to guide public opinion and control legal practitioners, including disappearance and torture, human rights lawyers continued their activities, and more lawyers joined their ranks to defend clients in human rights cases.
China: RSF Urges for Release of Ailing Covid-19 Reporter Zhang Zhan on the One-year Anniversary of her Sentence
Kunchok Jinpa, a leading source of information about Tibet for journalists, died in February 2021 as a result of mistreatment in detention. Nobel Peace Prize and RSF Press Freedom Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and dissident blogger Yang Tongyan both died in 2017 from cancer that was left untreated in detention.
China: RSF Urges for Release of Covid-19 Reporter Who Faces Impending Death
Zhang Zhan, a Chinese journalist who covered the first weeks of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, was sentenced to four years in prison for ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ by the Shanghai Pudong New Area Court in December 2020.
Condemnation of the Uyghur Persecution and the 2022 Winter Olympics
VISION TIMES Taking into account the Chinese regime’s brutal treatment of the Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang, a resolution was passed by the European Parliament condemning the detention of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs and Kazakhs in political “re-education camps” based on predictive policing. Condemnation of the persecution of Xinjiang minorities “[Parliament] urges the Chinese Communist Party’s […]
Chinese Rights Activists Win Prizes
France and Germany awarded Chinese activist Li Wenzu a rights prize on Wednesday. The two governments claimed Li had made an “exceptional contribution” to human rights in China
Jailed Uyghur Scholar Ilham Tohti Receives Freedom House’s ‘Freedom Award’
Radio Free Asia Jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti was honored on Wednesday at a ceremony in Washington D.C., where he was given the Freedom Award in absentia by the democracy watchdog group Freedom House. Accepting the award on her father’s behalf at the May 8 gathering at Washington’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Tohti’s daughter Jewher Tohti said […]
An Open Letter on Ilham Tohti’s Life
China Change This article was first published in China Change website on September 4, 2018 The Governments of Australia, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and the United States, and the European Council: We are a group of students, scholars, and professionals from China and Chinese-occupied territories. We call upon you to urge China to release the well-regarded […]
Chinese Police Threaten Muslim Poet Who Tweeted About Xinjiang Camps
Ng Yik-tung, Sing Man and Wu Jing | Radio Free Asia A prominent Muslim poet has been visited and threatened by police after tweeting about the mass incarceration of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China’s political “re-education camps.” Cui Haoxin, a member of the Hui Muslim ethnic group known by his pen-name An Ran, […]
A Call for a UN Investigation, and US Sanctions, on the Human Rights Disaster Unfolding in Xinjiang
China Change This article was first published in ChinaChange website on August 10, 2018 It is now clear, from numerous reliable sources, that shocking human rights atrocities are being perpetrated in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China (XUAR). The Communist Party authorities have established a large number of political re-education centers in Xinjiang, detaining […]