A prominent Uyghur academic has been reportedly jailed for life by China for “endangering state security”.
Rahile Dawut’s sentence was confirmed after she appealed against a 2018, according to the US-based Dui Hua Foundation rights group.
The 57-year-old professor lost her appeal this month.
China has been accused of crimes against humanity against the Uyghur population and other mostly-Muslim ethnic groups in Xinjiang.
Human rights groups believe China has detained more than one million Uyghurs against their will over the past few years in a large network of what the state calls “re-education camps”.
You have details about her case you’d care to share?
Considering the crime she was arrested for is “splittism,” aka secessionism, but not terrorism, my guess is no.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/23/chinese-government-sentences-famed-uighur-scholar-to-life-in-prison
Unless someone wants to accuse Al Jazeera of being a Western Capitalist Pig CIA front, this article has a bit more details about her than most. I don’t see anyone linking her socials where she calls for a Jihad or anything…