Chinese officials have denounced the award of a prestigious human rights prize to jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti. Tohti was found guilty of “separatism” in 2014 and sentenced to life in ...

This week marks 10 years since Ilham Tohti, a 54-year-old Uyghur economist and human rights advocate, was sentenced to life in prison by Chinese authorities. For some, like Enver Can, a 75-year ...

Ilham Tohti, a scholar and advocate for China’s minority Uighur population, has been sentenced to life in prison for “advocating separatism” despite his avowedly moderate views. From the ...

BEIJING—A Chinese court sentenced Ilham Tohti, an economist and prominent ethnic-rights campaigner, to life in prison, delivering an unusually harsh punishment for a scholar seen by many rights ...

“The life sentence for Ilham Tohti marked the beginning of the Chinese government’s severe crackdown on the Uyghur region in 2014,” said Maya Wang, associate China director at Human Rights ...

Ilham Tohti, a prominent Uyghur scholar and critic of Chinese government policies toward Xinjiang, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday on charges of separatism. Despite his outspoken manner ...

ILHAM TOHTI rarely worries about his personal safety here — at least not at the hands of would-be thieves. That is because Mr. Tohti, an economics professor and unofficial spokesman for this ...