China’s foreign ministry calls Ilham Tohti a “separatist who supports extreme terrorism”.
Tohti, who turns 50 on Friday, in September won another of Europe’s top human rights awards, the Vaclav Havel prize, for “giving the entire Uighur people a voice”. He gained prominence as a moderate voice drawing attention to ethnic tensions in the region and taught at a Beijing university. Tohti’s website was shut down when he was arrested, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based watchdog.
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