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 ...

Global rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on China’s communist regime to release prominent Uyghur economist and government critic Ilham Tohti who was convicted and given a life ...

The Chinese government should quash the conviction and release Ilham Tohti, the prominent Uyghur economist and government critic, on the 10th anniversary of his sentencing.

To mark the tenth anniversary on Monday of his sentencing to life in prison, Marie Holzman writes at the online human-rights journal Diyin on Ilham Tohti’s case and its enduring significance ...

Amnesty International on Wednesday called on world leaders to help secure the release of imprisoned Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti ahead of the 10-year anniversary of his conviction. The rights group ...

Human rights groups said his imprisonment reflects China's repression of the Uyghur and other ethnic groups in Xinjiang. This statement was originally published on pen-international.org on 15 January ...

An international campaign to nominate the jailed Uygur scholar Ilham Tohti for the Nobel Peace Prize was launched in Brussels on Monday, with his daughter saying the award could “bring pressure ...

No one has heard from Ilham since the Chinese government sentenced him to life in prison in 2014. A new book, We Uyghurs Have No Say, shows that the work of combatting the Uyghur genocide is more ...

Before he was arrested in 2014, Ilham Tohti was a leading Uyghur intellectual best known for his website. When Tohti, an economics professor who was nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, was ...

Jewher Ilham grew up in Beijing, the daughter of economics professor and Uighur human-rights activist Ilham Tohti. She was accompanying him on a teaching assignment to Indiana in 2013 when they ...

Tohti’s daughter, Jewher Ilham, accepted the award in his stead. Ilham has made a mission of bringing her father’s plight to world attention.