Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s Human Rights Award to Ilham Tohti in 2020.

Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s Human Rights Award to Ilham Tohti in 2020.

July 27, 2020
IMPRISONED UYGHUR ADVOCATE ILHAM TOHTI AWARDED EU’S TOP HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE

IMPRISONED UYGHUR ADVOCATE ILHAM TOHTI AWARDED EU’S TOP HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE

October 28, 2019
Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize awarded to Ilham Tohti

Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize awarded to Ilham Tohti

October 26, 2019
Ilham Tohti, imprisoned Uighur rights activist, gets top EU prize

Ilham Tohti, imprisoned Uighur rights activist, gets top EU prize

October 26, 2019

Ilham Tohti’s Sakharov Prize Will Drive Beijing Crazy

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Ilham Tohti’s Sakharov Prize Will Drive Beijing Crazy

The imprisoned Uighur economist represents an entire people under attack by China. BY JAMES PALMER  | OCTOBER 24, 2019, 1:53 PM The Uighur economist Ilham Tohti, currently held in a Chinese prison, has just been awarded the 2019 Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament. But who is he, and what does it mean? Foreign Policy has you covered. What’s the Sakharov Prize? Officially the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the prestigious human rights award was founded in 1988 in…

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Sakharov Prize: Jailed Uighur academic Ilham Tohti wins award

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Sakharov Prize: Jailed Uighur academic Ilham Tohti wins award

An academic jailed for separatism in China has been awarded the European Parliament’s top human rights prize. Ilham Tohti, who is from the Uighur minority, has been a fierce critic of China’s treatment of the Uighur people. He was jailed for life in 2014. More than a million Uighurs and other ethnic minorities are reported to have been held in camps in China’s restive Xinjiang region. Mr Tohti, seen by many as a moderate voice,…

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Present-Day Ethnic Problems in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region: Overview and Recommendations

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Present-Day Ethnic Problems in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region: Overview and Recommendations

China Change (translated by Cindy Carter, published: April 22, 2015 on China Change) This article, a total of 24,000 words in Chinese, was first posted on the Daxiong Gonghui (“大象公会”) website after the Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti’s arrest in January, 2014. Daxiong Gonghui described the origin of the article in a note: “This document was written by Ilham Tohti, associate professor of economics at Minzu University of China (formerly Central Nationalities University), in response to…

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My Ideals and the Career Path I Have Chosen

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My Ideals and the Career Path I Have Chosen

China Change On January 15, 2014, Chinese authorities arrested Ilham Tohti, a Uighur economics professor at the prestigious Minzu University in Beijing. Authorities formally charged him with separatism on February 25, and have so far denied him access to his attorney. For years, Tohti has discussed and commented on not only Chinese policies in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, where the vast majority of this Turkic Muslim population lives, but also the state of Han-Uighur relations. He…

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