Ilham Tohti
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Imprisoned Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti awarded the 2017 Human Rights Prize of the city of Weimar, Germany
Imprisoned Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti awarded the 2017 Human Rights Prize of the city of Weimar (Germany).Mr. Enver Can, Prezident of the Ilham Tohti Initiative e. V. Has received the Prize on 10 th December 2017 at a special Ceremony organised by the City Hall on behalf of Prof. Ilham Tohti. Mr. Can in his acceptance speech thanked for the Award Selection Comittee and the citizens of the city on behalf of Ilham Tohti and the Uyghur people, and also signed the Guest Book of the City of Weimar. He wrote in the City’s Guest Book “this Prize is an important moral support to Mr. Tohti and a source of hope for the whole Uyghur Nation“!
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“Freedom Prize” for Ilham Tohti
Mr. Enver Can received the “Freedom Prize” from the Liberal International on 30th November 2018 in Den Haag on behalf of Uyghur professor Ilham Tohti who was sentenced to life in prison by Chinese court in 2014.
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Uyghur Human Rights issue and Ilham Tohti case introduced at the IYI Party’s video conference
IYI Parti “Türk Dünyasi Calistayi“ (Briefing On The Turkic World) Photo caption:The Uyghur Human Rights issue and Ilham Tohti cade was discussed in the first Panel of the Internal Video (webinar) Briefing of the IYI Party (opposition) of Turkey on 27th of June 2020. The Panelists: Prof. St. Orhan Kavuncu, Prof. Dr. Konuralp Ercilasun and Dic.Dr. Erkin Ekrem) was moderated by Mr. Enver Can, President of the ITI.
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“Parliamentary Breakfast“ on human rights situation in the Uyghur Region (XUAR)
The Uyghur human rights Issue and the Ilham Tohti Case was first introduced to the Federal Parliament (Bundestag) of Germany on November 4th, 2018 for the “Parliamentary Breakfast“ at the Parliament Building in Berlin. The Gathering was initiated by the Ilham Tohti Initiative e.V. and jointly hosted by Ms Margarete Bause (Greens) and Mr. Michael Brandt of the ruling CDU/CSU Groups. At the gathering which was attended by more 20 members of the Parliament, the representatives of the German Foreign Ministry and some NGOs, members of the ITI including Mr. Enver Can, Prof. Marie Holzmann, prof. Huan Lopez Manuell and Mr. Ulrich Delius of the GfBV, informed German Parliamentarians about the human rights situation of the Uyghur people and asked them urge China to free prof. Ilham Tohti immediately and unconditionally! The above meeting had received a strong protest from Chinese Government.
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