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Ilham Tohti, a Uyghur economist, writer, and professor, is currently serving a life sentence for promoting ethnic harmony and understanding.
Today marks 10 years since an Urumqi court sentenced Uyghur writer Ilham Tohti to life in prison. For over a…
Ilham Tohti is a writer and professor from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Tohti’s defense of human rights has made him…
PEN American Center announced today that it will confer the 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award upon imprisoned Uyghur…
Uyghur writer Ilham Tohti has faced long periods of food deprivation and restraint by shackling during his detention, in violation…
A writer, scholar, and leader in Uyghur PEN, Ilham Tohti founded Uyghur Online, a forum for dialogue between China’s Muslim…
While we are relieved to learn that justice was not yet completely thwarted in Ilham Tohti’s case, PEN remains immensely…
“PEN America is deeply gratified to see Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti honored with the 2019 Sakharov Prize.”
“Tohti is exactly the kind of influential moderate the Chinese government should have courted in their professed efforts to build…
