Sex Male
Birth date 1969-10-25
Birth place Artux City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Resident place Chaoyang District, Beijing City Continue reading
Sex Male
Birth date 1969-10-25
Birth place Artux City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Resident place Chaoyang District, Beijing City Continue reading
On the occasion of the International Day for Human Rights, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), in cooperation with the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), Ilham Tohti Initiative (ITI) and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen convened a conference in the Bayrischer Landtag in Munich on 12 December 2016. Entitled “Ilham Tohti and the Situation of the Human Rights of the Uyghur”, the conference brought together a variety of researchers, experts and representatives of diaspora movements to discuss the pressing issue of Uyghur intellectual Ilham Tohti’s unjust imprisonment, how this represented a wider deprivation of fundamental human rights for the Uyghur, and what concrete steps must be taken to achieve peaceful coexistence between Han Chinese and Uyghurs.
Conference on Ilham Tohti and Human Rights for the Uyghur in Munich已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, honorary Members, Uighur
Tagged Ilham Tohti, Munich, Uyghur
Bruxelles, 09/12/2016 – 13:49 – UNIQUE ID: 161209_11
Every year on 10 December the international community celebrates the anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This anniversary is an opportunity for both the EU and China to examine their progress in protecting the human rights of all persons. Continue reading
The European Union Delegation in China issues the following statement in agreement with the EU Heads of Mission in China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Support Liu Xiaobo
Tagged EU, Ilham Tohti, Li Heping, Liu Xiaobo, statement, Tashi Wangchuk, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang, Zhang Haitao
11 October 2016 – PEN International welcomes the news that Uyghur scholar and PEN member Ilham Tohti, currently serving a life sentence in China, has been awarded the Martin Ennals Award, a major human rights prize and calls for his immediate release. Continue reading
As Uyghur PEN Member Ilham Tohti wins major human rights prize, PEN calls for his release已关闭评论
Tagged Ilham Tohti, Martin Ennals Award, Uyghur PEN
Tohti, PEN International is renewing its call on the Chinese authorities to release him immediately and unconditionally. Continue reading
China: One year after court upholds life sentence, Uyghur PEN member Ilham Tohti must be released已关闭评论
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Tagged Ilham Tohti, PEN, petition
ILHAM TOHTI
A professor at Minzu University in Beijing and the foremost Uighur public intellectual in the People’s Republic of China, he was sentenced to life in prison in September 2014 for advocating basic economic, cultural, religious and political rights for the Uighur people.
Inside:
— Interviews with Ilham Tohti
— Commentaries by Sakharov Prize laureate Hu Jia; Continue reading
Published: October 1, 2015
“Why would the results of a poll conducted by a neutral, respected polling organization tally so closely with the propaganda of a totalitarian government?”
Can it be that 92.8% of Chinese poll respondents are truly satisfied with the Chinese central government, and that among these, 37.6% are “extremely satisfied”? For over a decade, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Continue reading
Chang Ping: We’d Be Satisfied With Any Government!已关闭评论
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Tagged Chang Ping, Gao Yu, Ilham Tohti, Liu Xiaobo, Xu Zhiyong
By Ilham Tohti, translated by Cindy Carter, published: April 26, 2015
Continued from I. Unemployment and II. Bilingual Education
III. Religion
Overview
Since the July 2009 ethnic unrest in Xinjiang, religious fervor within China’s Uighur community has been rising steadily. Whether in traditional villages in southern Xinjiang, Continue reading
Present-Day Ethnic Problems in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region: Overview and Recommendations (3) – Religion已关闭评论
Posted in Uighur, Writers in Prison
Tagged Ilham Tohti, Uighur