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PEN Alarmed by Reports of Secret Trial and Conviction in Tohti Case

Literary and Human Rights Group Maintains Uyghur Writer’s Innocence

PEN American Center is deeply troubled by reports that jailed Uyghur scholar and 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award winner Ilham Tohti has been sentenced to a “heavy” jail term in a secret trial in China. Continue reading