Daughter of imprisoned Uighur scholar speaks out 7 years after he was arrested boarding flight to US
By Yael Halon | Fox News 23 July 2020 Jewhar Ilham and her father were preparing board their flight to the US when her father was arrested and later sentenced to life on separatism charges. The daughter of an imprisoned Uighur scholar...
Uyghur Human Rights issue and Ilham Tohti case introduced at the IYI Party’s video conference
IYI Parti “Türk Dünyasi Calistayi“ (Briefing On The Turkic World) Photo caption:The Uyghur Human Rights issue and Ilham Tohti cade was discussed in the first Panel of the Internal Video (webinar) Briefing of the IYI Party (opposition) of Turkey...
Mr. Uerkesh Davlet’s election as the Honorary President of the Board of Directors of the Ilham Tohti Institute
PRESS RELEASE Ilham Tohti Initiative For immediate Release CET 17 June 2020 Subject: Mr. Uerkesh Davlet’s election as the Honorary President of the Board of Directors of the Ilham Tohti Institute We are pleased to announce the recent election of...
Jailed Uyghur Scholar Ilham Tohti Receives Freedom House’s ‘Freedom Award’
RFA 2019.05.09 Jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti was honored on Wednesday at a ceremony in Washington D.C., where he was given the Freedom Award in absentia by the democracy watchdog group Freedom House. Accepting the award on her father’s...
Cancel China’s Appointment to UNHRC’s Consultative Group
UNPO 18 April 2020 UNPO joined 81 organizations and associations in a letter submitted to the UN calling for the cancellation of appointment of Mr Jiang Duan, Minister at the Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China, to the...
Ilham Tohti Case
Detained Since: January 15, 2014. Charges: Separatism. Sentence: Life in prison. Biography: Ilham Tohti is a Uyghur economics professor at Beijing’s Minzu University, where he was known for his research on Uyghur-Han relations as well as his activism for the implementation of regional...
Mr. Enver Can visited Ankara to introduce Ilham Tohti
ITI Activities briefing: The president of ITI, Mr. Enver Can visited Ankara 20-21 January 2020 to introduce Prof. Ilham Tohti situation to the members of the Turkish Grand Assembly (Parliament). He was Received by Deputy Chairman of the ruling...
Sakharov Prize: daughter of 2019 laureate Ilham Tohti receives prize on his behalf
EU affairs Updated: 19-12-2019 Jewher Ilham (left) receiving the award from Parliament President David Sassoli Ilham Tohti’s daughter Jewher Ilham accepted the 2019 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on 18 December on behalf of her jailed father. Ilham...
The Brief: ‘the last time I was able to talk to my father was 2014’
By Isabel Marques da Silva, Laura Ruiz Trullols • last updated: 19/12/2019 Euronews The Uyghur economist and human rights activist Ilham Tohti is this year’s Sakharov Prize winner for dedicating his life to the fight for the rights of China’s Muslim minority. In prison...