Uighur People Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/uighur-people/ 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. Tue, 28 Dec 2021 02:22:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Uighur People Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/uighur-people/ 32 32 59910430 A Documentary on Ilham Tohti: His Current Situation and His Work https://concernedscientists.org/2015/10/a-documentary-on-ilham-tohti-his-current-situation-and-his-work/ Thu, 29 Oct 2015 18:39:11 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=4573 CCS has been working for the release of Ilham Tohti, formerly a professor at Minzu University in Beijing. He has been involved in attempting to improve the plight of the Uighur population in the People’s Republic of China. He was sentenced to life in prison in September 2014 for advocating for basic economic, cultural, religious […]

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]]> 4573 Ilham Tohti Requesting Legal Counsel for Appeal of His Case https://concernedscientists.org/2015/10/ilham-tohti-requesting-legal-counsel-for-appeal-of-his-case/ Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:09:52 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=4547 Ilham Tohti has called on his family to engage lawyers and lodge an appeal for him through the Chinese judicial system. Tohti was arrested on July 30, 2014 and charged, after a period of detention, with separatism, which he denies. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Tohti was a Professor at Central […]

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]]> 4547 Ilham Tohti, Arrested in January Now Charged with Separatism https://concernedscientists.org/2014/08/ilham-tohti-arrested-in-january-now-charged-with-separatism/ Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:51:45 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=3543 On July 30, prosecutors announced online that Ilham Tohti, a professor at Central Minorities University in Beijing, had been formally charged with separatism, a crime which carries a potential death penalty. Tohti, an economics professor of economics and advocate for the rights of the Chinese Uighur minority, was arrested on January 15, 2014 and held incommunicado […]

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