To mark the 54th birthday of unjustly imprisoned Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti, an online seminar on the human rights situation of Uyghurs was organized on October 25.
To mark the 54th birthday of unjustly imprisoned Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti, the Ilham Tohti Initiative organized a live webinar on the human rights situation of Uyghurs on October 25, 2023.
Speakers included current and former members of the German Bundestag and MEP Engin Eroğlu.
Speakers Peter Heidt and Derya Türk-Nachbaur are co-founders of the newly established “Uyghur Friendship” group in the German Parliament.
The webinar can be watched live on Youtube via the link below.
MODERATORS AND SPEAKERS OF THE WEBINAR
Moderator: Kai Müller – General Manager ICT, Berlin
1: Derya Türk-Nachbauer, DPD MP
2: Peter Heidt, FDP MP
3: Engin Eroğlu, Member of the European Parliament
4: Martin Patzelt, former CDU MP
5: Wenzel Michalski – HRW Executive Director, Berlin
6: Enver Can – Founding President of Ilham Tohti Initiative
WHO IS İLHAM TOHTI
As is well known, Ilham Tohti is a researcher and academic who dared to raise his voice against the violations of the rights of Uyghurs in China and worked for the restoration of the rights of Uyghurs through legal means and dialogue. However, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 on the trumped-up charge of “separatism”, despite his efforts to solve the problems faced by Uyghurs through completely legal means.
Ilham Tohti has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize every year since 2018 by scholars and members of parliament from many countries, including the European Union, the United States and Turkey. He has been nominated for the last five years and has been selected at least twice as one of the final five candidates out of more than 300 others.
Since his imprisonment, Ilham Tohti has received at least 10 international awards, including the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for defenders of human rights and freedom of expression, which he won in 2019, and the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Award from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
from: UygurNews