China sentences mother of Uyghur Dutch airman to 15 years for visiting him abroad
Then his sister-in-law is sentenced to 15 years for telling him about it.
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Then his sister-in-law is sentenced to 15 years for telling him about it.
The watchtower of a high-security facility near a “re-education camp” where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, on the outskirts of Hotan, in China's northwestern Xinjiang region on May 31, 2019. ©2019 GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images For members of the Uyghur diaspora – people of Turkic descent who have left the Xinjiang region of China, where state repression runs deep – the decision to speak publicly about arbitrarily detained family members or to criticize human rights violations can be excruciating. Will doing so bring greater protect...
Hushtar Isa had a reputation as a promising Uyghur intellectual and social organizer, says a family friend.