Jewher Ilham, for example, didn’t expect to be a voice for her fellow Uyghurs. This changed after her father, lauded scholar Ilham Tohti, was arrested at the Beijing airport in February 2013.

Jewher Ilham speaks to how the apparel industry is complicit in the crimes leveraged against her people. As a human rights advocate and Uyghur woman, her mission is to help shape a world where ...

Jewher Ilham, daughter of an imprisoned Uyghur scholar, said she is concerned the Winter Olympic Games will benefit the Chinese governement.

Jewher Ilham is an emerging voice for the Uyghur people, an accomplished young scholar, and the Uyghur Human Rights Fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. She is the daughter of ...

Jewher Ilham is an Uyghur human rights activist.

Jewher Ilham on how policymakers can stand up to the Chinese government’s mistreatment of Uyghurs Start by banning imports made with forced labour, says the daughter of an imprisoned scholar ...

Jewher Ilham is a Uyghur activist, fighting for her illustrious father and others trapped in the Chinese gulag.

Jewher tagged along, planning to travel with her father for a few weeks before eventually returning home to Beijing. At the Beijing airport, however, Ilham was detained by authorities.

I’m asking to solve a problem,” says Jewher Ilham, daughter of imprisoned scholar Ilham Tohti. She has become a vocal advocate for her father and the Uighur minority in China. (Photo: Jewher ...

Editor’s Note: Jewher Ilham is a Uyghur human rights advocate and author of “Because I Have To: The Path to Survival, The Uyghur Struggle (Spring 2022).” The opinions expressed in this ...

Nick Schifrin: Jewher Ilham is a Uyghur activist and, from her base in Virginia, works with the labor monitoring group, Worker Rights Consortium. What's really happening in Xinjiang today?

Jewher Ilham, daughter of imprisoned Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti holds a photo of her father during the Sakharov Prize ceremony at the European Parliament. AP / Jean-Francois ...