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China to try Uighur professor on charges of separatism

september 16, 2014by 0

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A Beijing economics professor who has persistently questioned China’s policies toward ethnic minorities is heading to trial Wednesday on charges of separatism. Ilham Tohti, 44, was detained in January. A scholar at Beijing’s Minzu University, he founded a website aimed at promoting understanding between China’s Han majority and ethnic Uighurs, a Muslim minority concentrated in China’s far western province of Xinjiang. [Ilham Tohti] used only one weapon in his struggle for the basic rights of the Uighurs of Xinjiang: words. Spoken, written, distributed and posted … – Jewher Tohti, accepting the PEN award for her father Relations between the two groups have become…

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