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The New Yorker just published an essay I wrote. This is the first time I have written about my family story. Words can not express my gratitude, especially to @RohdeD
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I stand firmly with @JewherIlham who has fought tirelessly for the freedom of her father, my father, and of countless Uyghurs. Every single world leader with principle should echo her call and press Beijing.
Say it loud, say it clear, say it again and again: #FreeIlhamTohti
12 years ago today, my father, Ilham Tohti, was sentenced to life in prison for “separatism”—a charge that bears no resemblance to the work he dedicated his life to.
My father is an Uyghur economist, scholar, writer, educator, husband, father, and believer. Above all, he was a man who devoted his life and his own resources to fostering dialogue, supporting his community, bridging divides, and helping people understand one another.
He is not the criminal the Chinese government has portrayed him to be. A man who spent his life building bridges should never have been locked behind bars.
For 12 years, our family has lived with his absence. For 9 years, we have had no family visit with him.
Today, on the 12th anniversary of his life sentence, I once again call on the Chinese government: Release Ilham Tohti.
Let my father come home. Let him read, write, think, teach, and love his family freely again! #FreeIlhamTohti
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12 years ago today, my father, Ilham Tohti, was sentenced to life in prison for “separatism”—a charge that bears no resemblance to the work he dedicated his life to.
My father is an Uyghur economist, scholar, writer, educator, husband, father, and believer. Above all, he was a man who devoted his life and his own resources to fostering dialogue, supporting his community, bridging divides, and helping people understand one another.
He is not the criminal the Chinese government has portrayed him to be. A man who spent his life building bridges should never have been locked behind bars.
For 12 years, our family has lived with his absence. For 9 years, we have had no family visit with him.
Today, on the 12th anniversary of his life sentence, I once again call on the Chinese government: Release Ilham Tohti.
Let my father come home. Let him read, write, think, teach, and love his family freely again! #FreeIlhamTohti
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How do you remove an INTERPOL Red Notice? The short version, from an INTERPOL Red Notice lawyer.
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MAHIYA NAMAN KAYO | Secretary of National Defense Gilberto C. Teodoro, Jr. responded to a note from the Chinese side during the Seoul Defense Dialogue (SDD) 2026 in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
#DNDPHL #DiKaPasisiil #SDD2026
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China's transnational repression in Japan, as reported by Japanese media: a Uyghur man was about to speak at an event in Japan on Uyghur forced labor. He withdrew his participation after Xinjiang authorities detained his relatives in XJ for about 24 hours. mainichi.jp/articles/2026083…
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RT @shahitbiz: A police note from Konasheher County, establishing the use of solitary confinement (with handcuffs + leg irons) in detention…
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RT @shahitbiz: We've published a new analytical review on prisoner fates and numbers: blog.shahit.biz/2026/09/01/l…
The focus is on the situatio…
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RT @shahitbiz: We've added a list to track all documented victims who were sentenced after explicitly being released from camp detention: h…
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RT @shahitbiz: 我们新增了追踪被释放出集中营后仍遭判刑受害者的名单：shahit.biz/exportpdf.php?lis…
尽管这种情形相对少见（目前已知12例），但这一群体清晰展现了新疆存在的“旋转木马式拘留”机制的运作模式。 t.co/2F0QvlH…
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A Jeju police officer was arrested today for deliberately shutting down missing-person cases — not one or two, but roughly 298 of them. He told families their loved ones were safe, then quietly deleted the cases from the missing-persons system.
The case cracked open because of Jang Mi-ran's disappearance, which turned out to expose a far larger cover-up.
Jang Mi-ran, 37, went missing on May 12.
Her boyfriend reported it, and the officer assigned to the case told him he'd reached her, that she was safe, and that she didn't want her location shared — then closed the file that same night. It later emerged there was no record police had ever actually contacted her.
Once the officer was identified and implicated, investigators went back through his past cases. Between August 22 and 24, they found four bodies of people who had been reported missing — Jang Mi-ran among them, found 104 days after she disappeared, just a few minutes' walk from where she'd been staying. The other three were men, two in their 60s and one in his 70s.
Since prosecutors' authority to conduct supplementary investigation was abolished, public anxiety has been mounting over how a single officer could kill hundreds of cases with almost no way for anyone to catch it.
Video: the family, enraged, confronts the officer. (Chanel A News)
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Eighteen years in a Dubai prison. A sentence completed in 2018. Twenty more years added over a debt a Bahraini court found discharged. Three UN mandates warning of a death sentence. Ryan Cornelius is 72. Release him.
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An extradition request is an allegation. No court has tested the evidence behind it. Yet people sit in custody for months while the paperwork is argued, and the requesting state risks nothing if it is wrong.
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RT @shahitbiz: Today marks 8 years since the death of Ghalipjan Ehmetjan (shahit.biz/eng/5575/), who was allegedly beaten to death by a…
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多位明星被标记为“涉恐人员”
8月15日，Xinjiang Victims Database（新疆受害者数据库）称，他们将一份此前泄露、包含约450名中国明星身份证信息的名单，与早前曝光的中国公安数据库进行交叉比对后发现，演员迪丽热巴·迪力木拉提、古力娜扎·拜合提亚尔，以及歌手吾木提·吐尔逊均曾被系统标记为“涉恐人员”。
几年前，一份包含约450名明星身份证号码的名单遭到泄露（scribd.com/document/79559383…），其中有8人来自新疆。我们据此进行了进一步核查，并发现演员迪丽热巴·迪力木拉提、古力娜扎·拜合提亚尔以及韩国流行音乐歌手吾木提·吐尔逊也均被标记为“涉恐人员”。
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The Chinese government is interrogating Uyghur Australians visiting Xinjiang, pressing them to collect information. Beijing exploits the vulnerability of separated Uyghur families as an opportunity for surveillance & disruption of communities abroad. @hrw hrw.org/news/2026/08/16/aust…
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RT @shahitbiz: Following a list of around 450 celebrity IDs being leaked some years ago (scribd.com/document/79559383…), including 8 from XJ, we…
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