'I don't know if my father is alive': jailed Uighur's daughter receives EU prize

The daughter of jailed Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti has received the EU's top rights prize on his behalf, saying she did not even know if he was still alive.

"The last time I heard about my father was 2017, that was also the last time a family visit was granted to my father," Ms Ilham said before receiving the prize next to a symbolic empty chair at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.'Chinese government cannot silence me': Uighur activist speaks out and asks Australians for support

Rights groups and experts say more than one million Uighurs and people of other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities have been rounded up and put in the camps in the tightly controlled region.Mr Tohti ran the UighurOnline website, which wrote in Uighur and Chinese about social issues, gaining prominence as a moderate voice drawing attention to ethnic tensions in the region.- who also won the Sakharov Prize while behind bars - gave her hope for her father.

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