Rahile Dawut Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/rahile-dawut/ An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world. Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:20:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Rahile Dawut Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/rahile-dawut/ 32 32 59910430 Anthropology Professor and renowned scholar of Uyghur studies arrested and sentenced to prison https://concernedscientists.org/2024/03/anthropology-professor-and-renowned-scholar-of-uyghur-studies-arrested-and-sentenced-to-prison/ Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:20:15 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=10234 Rahile Dawut disappeared in 2017, and after years of no answers, it has now been confirmed that she is serving a life sentence in prison following a secret trial on charges of a crime of endangering state security. In September 2023, the charge was confirmed on appeal. The charge appears to be based on her […]

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]]> 10234 Rahile Dawut https://concernedscientists.org/2021/07/rahile-dawut/ Thu, 22 Jul 2021 20:04:53 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=9207 In September 2018, CCS reported on the case of a missing Uyghur Professor of Anthropology Rahile Dawut who had created and directed the Xinjiang University’s Minorities Folklore Research Center. She was one of the first prominent Uyghurs who disappeared on her way to a conference in Beijing in 2017.  Akida Polat, Rahile’s daughter, never saw or spoke to her […]

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]]> 9207 Rahile Dawut, Prominent Uyghur Scholar and Anthropologist, Missing https://concernedscientists.org/2018/09/rahile-dawut-prominent-uyghur-scholar-and-anthropologist-missing/ Sat, 15 Sep 2018 21:33:47 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7145 Dr. Rahile Dawut, a prominent Uyghur scholar and anthropologist has been missing since December 2017. She is a professor at Xinjiang University. It has been alleged that she has been detained – whereabouts unknown. No one seems to be aware of anything that she may have done that would lead to incarceration or a criminal […]

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