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Chinese activist and journalist go on trial

Reporter Gao faces charges of revealing state secrets while Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti’s life sentence appeal rejected.

Last updated: 21 Nov 2014 08:55

665003303001_3902930311001_201411218648692580-20Chinese authorities have put on trial an outspoken journalist accused of revealing state secrets and rejected an appeal by Continue reading

An Internet Where Nobody Says Anything

Ilham Tohti’s unjust fate says much about the Chinese Communist Party’s dark vision for the web’s future.

BY DAVID WERTIME SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Here is what a court in Urumqi, the capital of China’s western Xinjiang region, concludes Ilham Tohti, a balding, thick-set, 44-year-old professor, did: “Using ‘Uighur Online’ as a platform, and taking advantage of his role as a university professor,” Tohti “spread separatist notions” and “bewitched and coerced” seven of his students to join into an eight-person, web-powered splittist clique with international reach. Here is what Tohti, by all appearances, actually did: He created and maintained a Chinese-language website, called Uighur Online, that provided a bridge between China’s Han majority and its Uighur minority, a Turkic-language-speaking, predominantly Muslim group that mostly lives in Xinjiang and has an uneasy history of coexistence with the growing number of Han who live among them, one marred by violent clashes. Continue reading

PEN International’s Assembly of Delegates calls for release of three imprisoned writers in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and China

2 October, 2014

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Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan – PEN International’s Assembly of Delegates, meeting at the organisation’s 80th international Congress Continue reading

An Internet Where Nobody Says Anything-Ilham Tohti’s Sentence Shows Dark Vision for the Web of the Future

TEA LEAF NATION, DAVID WERTIME 09.25.14

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Chinese police impose tight security, sealing off the road leading to the Urumqi Intermediate People’s court, as the trial of Ilham Tohti begins, in Urumqi, September 17, 2014.

Here is what a court in Urumqi, the capital of China’s western Xinjiang region, concludes Ilham Tohti, a balding, thick-set, Continue reading

3 Chinese Students, Missing for Months, Surface to Denounce Uighur Scholar

By EDWARD WONGSEPT. 26, 2014

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Relatives have said students of Ilham Tohti are being held. Credit Andy Wong/Associated Press

URUMQI, China — The three students Continue reading

Ilham Tohti’s Statement after Receiving a Life Sentence for Allegedly “Separatist” Crimes

By Ilham Tohti, published: September 25, 2014

On Wednesday, September 24, 2014, lawyer Li Fangping met with Ilham in Urumqi Detention Center, Xinjiang. Ilham signed a 15-page appeal Continue reading

NICHOLAS BEQUELIN:The Price of China’s Uighur Repression-Jailing of Ilham Tohti Will Radicalize More Uighurs

SEPT. 25, 2014

China’s sledgehammer approach to dissent was on display once more this week, when the authorities sentenced the Uighur economist Ilham Tohti to life in prison on Tuesday. The verdict attracted widespread international Continue reading

Prominent Uighur scholar in China to appeal life sentence: lawyer

BY SUI-LEE WEE

Uighur academic Ilham Tohti sits during his trial on separatism charges in Urumqi, Xinjiang region
BEIJING Wed Sep 24, 2014 5:19am EDT

 

Uighur academic Ilham Tohti sits during his trial on separatism charges in Urumqi, Continue reading