UNPO 18 April 2020 UNPO joined 81 organizations and associations in a letter submitted to the UN calling for the cancellation of appointment of Mr Jiang Duan, Minister at the Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China, to the...
The Ilham Tohti Initiative (ITI) is a non-governmental organization, that was founded after the unjustly imprisoned Uyghur academic Professor Ilham Tohti. Before Ilham Tohti was imprisoned by the Chinese government, he publicly conducted research and pursued campaigns, including: establishing an...
ئەسسالامۇ ئەلەيكۇم مۆھتەرەم يۇرتداشلار! مەن تۆۋەندە، پۈتكۈل مۇھاجىرەتتىكى ئۇيغۇر جامائىتىگە سەمىمىيەت ۋە مەسئۇلىيەتچانلىق بىلەن شۇنى ئېيتىمەنكى، مەۋجۇت “ئىلھام توختى گۇرۇپپىسى” نى ئىنستىتۇتقا ئايلاندۇرۇش توغرۇلۇق بېرىلگەن باياناتنىڭ ئېنگىلىز تىلىدا ئېلان قىلىنغان نۇسخىسىدا خاتالىققا يول قويۇلغانلىقىنىڭ بارلىق جاۋابكارلىقىنى مەن ئەنۋەرجان، ئىلھام...
Detained Since: January 15, 2014. Charges: Separatism. Sentence: Life in prison. Biography: Ilham Tohti is a Uyghur economics professor at Beijing’s Minzu University, where he was known for his research on Uyghur-Han relations as well as his activism for the implementation of regional...
ITI Activities briefing: The president of ITI, Mr. Enver Can visited Ankara 20-21 January 2020 to introduce Prof. Ilham Tohti situation to the members of the Turkish Grand Assembly (Parliament). He was Received by Deputy Chairman of the ruling...
EU affairs Updated: 19-12-2019 Jewher Ilham (left) receiving the award from Parliament President David Sassoli Ilham Tohti’s daughter Jewher Ilham accepted the 2019 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on 18 December on behalf of her jailed father. Ilham...
By Isabel Marques da Silva, Laura Ruiz Trullols • last updated: 19/12/2019 Euronews The Uyghur economist and human rights activist Ilham Tohti is this year’s Sakharov Prize winner for dedicating his life to the fight for the rights of China’s Muslim minority. In prison...
BEIJING (AFP) – China hit out at the European Parliament on Friday (Oct 25) for awarding a key human rights prize to jailed Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti, saying that he is a “terrorist”. Tohti – a former economics professor...
P R E S S R E L E A S E Fore Immmediate Release. 24 October 2019 (CET)Subject: Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2019Contact: Enver Can, +491738912048 The Ilham Tohti Initiative e.V. hails the Award as a very...
BBC News 24 October 2019 An academic jailed for separatism in China has been awarded the European Parliament’s top human rights prize. Ilham Tohti, who is from the Uighur minority, has been a fierce critic of China’s treatment of the...
