A Conference on Uyghur crisis and professor Ilham Tohti
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ILHAM TOHTI INSTITUTE VIDEO CONFERENCE: Commemorating the Sixth Anniversary of the verdict of Prof. Ilham Tohti for life imprisonment in China
ILHAM TOHTI INSTITUTE VIDEO CONFERENCE:Commemorating the Sixth Anniversary of the verdict of Prof. Ilham Tohti for life imprisonment in China WEBINAR on 23 Sept 2020 15:00 Berlin time A panel discussion with scholars, human rights activists and students of prof. Ilham Tohti. We will discuss the life, work, courage and bravery of Prof. Ilham Tohti in conjunction with the current crises in the Uyghur Land and shed light into the visionary proposals he made to establish peace and stability in the Region. We will also focus on the importance of the role of liberals such as Ilham Tohti against China’s current policy of genocide against Uyghurs. Do you have you have any more suitable idea? If yes, they are welcome! Join us via ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OPZ8Ys3wQimax8BxE2m9fgWebinar ID: 880 3142 2499 Ilham Tohti institutewww.ilhamtohtiinstitute.org/?p=896
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CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK SUMMIT
JULY 23, 2020 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Event On July 23, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation hosted the Captive Nations Week Summit, providing an opportunity for policymakers and human rights advocates to hear first-hand from witnesses of the captive nations of China, including East Turkestan, Hong Kong, Inner Mongolia, and Tibet. We awarded the Victims of Communism Human Rights Award to Ilham Tohti, Uyghur activist and economist serving a life sentence in China for advocating for regional autonomy in Xinjiang. His daughter, Jewher Ilham, will accept the award on his behalf. HONORING Ilham Tohti, Victims of Communism Human Rights Award Recipient Ilham Tohti is one of the most renowned Uyghur public intellectuals who is serving a life sentence in China for his advocacy for the Uyghur people. For over two decades, Tohti advocated tirelessly for a peaceful solution to end the repressive policies of the Chinese Communist Party and ethnic tensions in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, known by the Uyghur people as East Turkestan. He was born in 1969 in Xinjiang and began his studies in 1985 at the institution that is today the Central Minzu University in Beijing, known for minority studies. He eventually became a faculty member at the same university and a recognized expert on economic and social issues pertaining to Xinjiang and Central Asia. In order to make the economic, social, and developmental issues confronting the Uyghurs known to China’s wider population, Tohti established the Chinese-language website Uyghur Online in 2006, to foster dialogue and understanding between Uyghurs and Chinese on the Uyghur Issue. Tohti was summoned from his Beijing home and detained shortly after the July 2009 Ürümqi riots by the authorities because of his criticism of the Chinese government’s policies toward Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Tohti was released on August 23, 2009, after international pressure and condemnation. He was arrested again in […]
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A Conference on Uyghur crisis and professor Ilham Tohti
By Ilham Tohti Institute 28th September 2019 Two days before announce the European “Václav Havel Human Rights Prize” 2019 for three nominees including Uyghur Professor Ilham Tohti whom sentenced for life in prison by Chinese government for his campaign for equal rights before China’s law for his fellow Uyghur people, we have successfully held a “Conference on Uyghur crisis and professor Ilham Tohti” in Utrich, Netherland, organised by Ilham Tohti Campaign (ITC) and hosted by East Turkistan Education Centre in Europe. Many thanks for the organisers, and presenters whom gave impressive presentations including president of Ilham Tohti Institute, Enver Can, Aziz Isa Elkun, Secretary of Uyghur PEN Centre, writer and intellectual Abduweli Ayup and Asiye Uyghur, presenter Enver Memet! During the conference, all presenters talk about Ilham Tohti’s promoted ideas, and how do understand, inherit and continue his campaigns in the days of biggest crisis that Uyghur nation is facing when Chinese government detained over 3 million innocent Uyghurs and other Turkic people and committing ethnic and cultural genocide in Uyghur homeland. Ilham Tohti was Professor of economics at Central University of Nationality, China (中央民族大学) . What he said before he’s arrest regarding to the existing Uyghur crises which we have to always remember: “At the same time, these serious social problems have become a forbidden subject for study, creating a discursive void. Few dare to touch upon these problems directly, let alone conduct systematic social investigations and analyses in search for solutions. On the one hand, the Uighurs’ social problems lead to increasing dissatisfaction and distrust of the government and of Han people; on the other, discriminatory ideas against the Uighur people among members of Han society especially in the interior of China- grow deeper.” “I knew that there would be an intense clash of opinions, but I believe […]