Ilham Tohti, My Brother

lham was the recipient of the Sakharov Prize in 2019. By then, the world had known that China had placed several millions of Uyghurs in concentration camps and prisons, subjecting them to torture, indoctrination, forced labor, and long prison sentences.

Remembering enforced disappearance victims in Asia

Rahile Dawut disappeared in December 2017, and at the time was believed to have been arrested and detained in one of the many internment camps in Xinjiang. More than three years after her disappearance, former co-workers at Xinjiang University confirmed that Rahile was detained along with other members of the Uyghur intellectual and cultural elite, sentenced, and jailed.