{"id":729,"date":"2020-07-25T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T12:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ilhamtohtiinstitute.org\/?p=729"},"modified":"2020-07-25T20:30:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T20:30:49","slug":"daughter-of-imprisoned-uighur-scholar-speaks-out-7-years-after-he-was-arrested-boarding-flight-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ilhamtohtiinstitute.org\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"Daughter of imprisoned Uighur scholar speaks out 7 years after he was arrested boarding flight to US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/h\/yael-halon\">Yael Halon<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\">&nbsp;| Fox News<\/a>  23 July 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jewhar Ilham and her father were preparing board their flight to the US when her father was arrested and later sentenced to life on separatism charges<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6174107709001&amp;w=780&amp;h=400\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The daughter of an imprisoned Uighur scholar is on a mission to shed light&nbsp;on China&#8217;s human rights abuses&nbsp;after her father was arrested in Beijing&#8217;s International Airport and sentenced to a life behind bars on separatism charges.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jewhar Ilham told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/shows\/bill-hemmer-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Bill Hemmer Reports&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;Wednesday that her father&nbsp;Ilham Tohti was invited in February 2013 as a visiting scholar to&nbsp;Indiana University. Jewhar and her father were preparing to board their flight to the U.S. when her father was arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;2013, Feb. 2, was last&nbsp;time I saw my father at the&nbsp;Beijing International Airport,&#8221; Jewhar said. &#8220;He was invited by Indiana University as a visiting scholar and I was only planning to accompany&nbsp;him and spent three weeks as a&nbsp;vacation, but as a teenager, I&nbsp;appeared to have no threats to&nbsp;the government officials.&nbsp;I was allowed to leave the&nbsp;country, but my father was&nbsp;arrested at the airport.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/muslim-majority-countries-stay-silent-on-alleged-chinese-uighur-abuses-while-the-u-s-fronts-their-fight-for-human-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>US SPEAKS UP FOR MINORITY MUSLIM UIGHURS IN CHINA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After being placed on house arrest for 11 months,&nbsp;Tohti, a well-known economics professor in Beijing,&nbsp;was given an unprecedented life sentence based on the writings on his website, Uyghur Online, that promoted peaceful coexistence between the Uyghur people and Han Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>&#8220;There are hundreds of thousands&nbsp;of daughters and sons just like&nbsp;me that can&#8217;t see their parents,&nbsp;cannot call their parents and&nbsp;cannot communicate.&nbsp;They don&#8217;t even know, just like&nbsp;me, if their parents are alive or&nbsp;not.&#8221;<\/strong><br><br>\u2014 &nbsp;Jewhar Ilham, &#8216;Bill Hemmer Reports&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He was well-known for his&nbsp;peaceful suggestions and his&nbsp;website,&#8221; Jewhar said. &#8220;My father wanted to use this&nbsp;website to create understanding&nbsp;and to promote peaceful dialogue&nbsp;or coexistence between the&nbsp;Uighurs people and the Han Chinese.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because many social media outlets and search engines are banned, Tohti created his website to&nbsp;&#8220;provide a platform for the&nbsp;people, the Uighurs and the Han Chinese&#8230;to create&nbsp;understanding with each other,&#8221; Jewhar explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-administration-adds-11-companies-to-sanctions-list-over-uighur-oppression\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>TRUMP ADMIN TARGETS UIGHUR OPPERESION IN SANCTION LIST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There is only one type of&nbsp;information, and that is state TV.&nbsp;And of course, that creates&nbsp;various information&#8217;s towards the&nbsp;Chinese citizens.&nbsp;And people with lack of understanding&nbsp;might have created hate with each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere between one&nbsp;and five million Uighurs&nbsp;have been sent off to what the Beijing government officially refers to as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/muslim-majority-countries-stay-silent-on-alleged-chinese-uighur-abuses-while-the-u-s-fronts-their-fight-for-human-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cre-education camps\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;classified by Jewhar as a &#8220;concentration camp.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My father is not the only&nbsp;person who is imprisoned,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There are&nbsp;thousands of hundreds of Uighurs&nbsp;just like my father [that] are locked&nbsp;up in a prison or concentration&nbsp;camp.&nbsp;There are hundreds of thousands&nbsp;of daughters and sons just like&nbsp;me that can&#8217;t see their parents,&nbsp;cannot call their parents and&nbsp;cannot communicate.&nbsp;They don&#8217;t even know, just like&nbsp;me, if their parents are alive or&nbsp;not.&#8221;Yael Halon is a reporter for Fox News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Yael Halon&nbsp;| Fox News 23 July 2020 Jewhar Ilham and her father were preparing board their flight to the US when her father was arrested and later sentenced to life on separatism charges Watch the latest video at foxnews.com The daughter of an imprisoned Uighur scholar is on a mission to shed light&nbsp;on China&#8217;s human rights abuses&nbsp;after her father was arrested in Beijing&#8217;s International Airport and sentenced to a life behind bars on separatism charges. Jewhar Ilham told&nbsp;&#8220;Bill Hemmer Reports&#8221;&nbsp;Wednesday that her father&nbsp;Ilham Tohti was invited in February 2013 as a visiting scholar to&nbsp;Indiana University. Jewhar and her father were preparing to board their flight to the U.S. when her father was arrested. &#8220;2013, Feb. 2, was last&nbsp;time I saw my father at the&nbsp;Beijing International Airport,&#8221; Jewhar said. &#8220;He was invited by Indiana University as a visiting scholar and I was only planning to accompany&nbsp;him and spent three weeks as a&nbsp;vacation, but as a teenager, I&nbsp;appeared to have no threats to&nbsp;the government officials.&nbsp;I was allowed to leave the&nbsp;country, but my father was&nbsp;arrested at the airport.&#8221; US SPEAKS UP FOR MINORITY MUSLIM UIGHURS IN CHINA After being placed on house arrest for 11 months,&nbsp;Tohti, a well-known economics professor in Beijing,&nbsp;was given an unprecedented life sentence based on the writings on his website, Uyghur Online, that promoted peaceful coexistence between the Uyghur people and Han Chinese. &#8220;There are hundreds of thousands&nbsp;of daughters and sons just like&nbsp;me that can&#8217;t see their parents,&nbsp;cannot call their parents and&nbsp;cannot communicate.&nbsp;They don&#8217;t even know, just like&nbsp;me, if their parents are alive or&nbsp;not.&#8221; \u2014 &nbsp;Jewhar Ilham, &#8216;Bill Hemmer Reports&#8217; &#8220;He was well-known for his&nbsp;peaceful suggestions and his&nbsp;website,&#8221; Jewhar said. &#8220;My father wanted to use this&nbsp;website to create understanding&nbsp;and to promote peaceful dialogue&nbsp;or coexistence between the&nbsp;Uighurs people and the Han Chinese.&#8221; Because many social media outlets and search engines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,51,12,45],"tags":[114,11,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilhamtohtiinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilhamtohtiinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilhamtohtiinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilhamtohtiinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilhamtohtiinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilhamtohtiinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilhamtohtiinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilhamtohtiinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilhamtohtiinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilhamtohtiinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilhamtohtiinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}