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Imprisoned Uighur Scholar Receives Literary Honor

01 April 2014 İlham Tohti

Ilham Tohti, the economist and activist imprisoned by Chinese authorities, has been awarded a Freedom to Write Award by the PEN American Center. PEN, the literary and human rights organization, announced Monday that Tohti will be honored at a gala on May 5. Tohti's daughter, Jewher Ulham, will appear on his behalf. The award is officially called the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Fre...

China angered as detained Uighur academic wins rights prize

01 April 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti

(Reuters) - China's foreign ministry expressed anger on Tuesday after a prominent detained Uighur academic won a human rights award in the United States, saying that he was a suspected criminal. Ilham Tohti, an economics professor who has championed the rights of the Muslim Uighur people from China's restive far western region of Xinjiang, was detained in January and subsequ...

Imprisoned Uighur scholar receives literary honor

01 April 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti

[caption id="attachment_105" align="aligncenter" width="599"] İlham Tohti[/caption] By Associated Press, Published: March 31 NEW YORK — Ilham Tohti, the economist and activist imprisoned by Chinese authorities, has been awarded a Freedom to Write Award by the PEN American Center. PEN, the literary and human rights organization, announced Monday that Tohti will be honored...

PEN Honors Ilham Tohti with PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award

01 April 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti

rganization Deepens Focus on Protecting Digital Expression by Honoring Uyghur Chinese Writer Jailed for Online Activities NEW YORK—PEN American Center announced today that it will confer the 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award upon imprisoned Uyghur economist and writer Ilham Tohti. Thirty-five of the 38 writers who were in prison at the time they won the PEN/Bar...

Uyghur Farmers Detained After Posting Land Complaints Online

31 March 2014 All Headlines, News

Three Uyghur farmers campaigning for compensation for land confiscated in their village in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region were detained and taken away to another city this week after posting a statement outlining their grievances online, farmers said. The three men are farmers’ representatives from Qaziriq village in Kashgar city’s Nezerbagh township, where r...

Chinese Police Freeze Bank Accounts of Uyghur Dissident

31 March 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti

Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have frozen the bank accounts of a detained outspoken ethnic minority Uyghur scholar, leaving his family with no money to live on, according to his wife. Ilham Tohti, a professor at the Beijing's Central University for Nationalities, was detained in January on separatism charges in the Chinese capi...

Another Batch of Uyghur Asylum Seekers Held in Thailand

25 March 2014 All Headlines, News

Thailand has detained a second group of people believed to be Uyghurs fleeing violence in China's Xinjiang province as Southeast Asian countries are asked to adopt a more humane policy towards the ethnic minority asylum seekers. The group of 112 was held in Sa Kaew province near the Thai-Cambodia border last week and has been taken to the central immigration detention center...

China charges Uighur academic with separatism

26 February 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti

Authorities in China's far western region of Xinjiang have charged a prominent ethnic Uighur professor with separatism. After a month in detention, Ilham Tohti's arrest had been formally approved, and he was being charged with separatism, his wife Guzailai Nuer announced on Tuesday after receiving a notice from the local government. Last month, police in the capital city ...

China Formally Arrests Uyghur Dissident For ‘Separatism’

26 February 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti

Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have formally arrested outspoken Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti on separatism charges, his family said on Tuesday. Tohti, who has already been in custody for more than a month with no word to his family, was formally arrested on Feb. 20 by the Xinjiang capital Urumqi municipal police department on suspicion of ...

Detained Uyghur Scholar ‘Denied Legal Defense’: Lawyer

19 February 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti

Authorities in Beijing have repeatedly refused requests for a meeting with a lawyer acting for outspoken Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti, who is being held by state security police in an unknown location and effectively denied any sort of legal representation, the lawyer said on Tuesday. Li Fangping hit out at police for flouting due process in handling the case of Tohti, who was...