๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐๐.๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐, ๐๐๐๐. ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฏ๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐.๐ง๐ฅ/๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฃ๐จ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐จ ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ!
The persecution of Chinaโs predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority has received growing international attention. Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti dedicated his life to steering the Chinese government away from misguided oppression. In 2014, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Jewher Ilham, the daughter of Ilham Tohti, is staunchly campaigning for his release. In De Balie we will speak about the current Uyghur human rights crisis and how the Netherlands and the international community should act.
Various expert reports and leaked Chinese Communist Party documents have mapped out the Chinese state-led campaign to confine up to one million Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region to re-education camps, where they are forced to renounce their faith, their language and their ethnic identity.
Ilham Tohti warned against the current crisis. As a moderate voice and a respected economist, he tried to reconcile the differences between Han-Chinese and Uyghurs. Ilham Tohti was awarded the European Parliamentโs Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2019. Together with ๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ค ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ข๐ฆ, an Uyghur activist living in The Netherlands and China expert ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฃ๐ง ๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐๐ค from Amnesty International, we will discuss the fate and the future of Uyghurs in China. ๐๐๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐ฅ๐ก๐๐ฆ will join in via Zoom.
host: De Balie
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