Uygur academic Ilham Tohti denied allegations that he engaged in separatism as he went on trial on Wednesday in the far western region of Xinjiang.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The daughter of Uygur rights advocate and academic Ilham Tohti, currently serving a life sentence in China, received the highest EU human rights accolade on his behalf on Wednesday.

Jewher Ilham held a portrait of her father during the awards ceremony in Strasbourg The daughter of Ilham Tohti, a Uighur intellectual who has been imprisoned in China, has said she does not know ...

Jailed Uighur economist Ilham Tohti receives Sakharov Prize Ilham Tohti was imprisoned on separatism charges, which experts say was part of crackdown on Uighur dissent.

Ilham Tohti, jailed Uighur activist, wins EU′s Sakharov Prize Ilham Tohti was sentenced to life in prison in September 2014 for his activism and to advocate China's Uighur minority.

Tohti, who turns 50 on Friday, in September won another of Europe's top human rights awards, the Vaclav Havel prize, for "giving the entire Uighur people a voice".