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Reuters Reuters 1 January, 2021, 5:12 am FILE PHOTO: A Chinese police officer takes his position by the road near what is officially called a vocational education centre in Yining in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Peter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States called on Wednesday for the release of a Uighur Muslim medical doctor who relatives say was sentenced to 20 years jail in China because of family members’ human rights activism in the United States. The daughter of Gulshan Abbas told a briefing organized with the bipartisan U.S. Congressi...

Her daughter, Ziba Murat, says she has been detained because on terrorism charges. Murat says her mother is being punished for her children's activist work in the US. The US called on Wednesday for the release of a Uighur Muslim medical doctor who relatives say was sentenced to 20 years jail in China because of family members' human rights activism in the US. The daughter of Gulshan Abbas told a briefing organised with the bipartisan US Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) that the family had recently learned her mother received the sentence in March 2019 on terrorism-related ch...