A prominent Uyghur academic has been reportedly jailed for life by China for “endangering state security”.
Rahile Dawut’s sentence was confirmed after she appealed against a 2018, according to the US-based Dui Hua Foundation rights group.
The 57-year-old professor lost her appeal this month.
China has been accused of crimes against humanity against the Uyghur population and other mostly-Muslim ethnic groups in Xinjiang.
Human rights groups believe China has detained more than one million Uyghurs against their will over the past few years in a large network of what the state calls “re-education camps”.
Let’s see what hexbear has to say about this. Have your mental gymnastics score cards at the ready.
They’ll say nothing first and, if pushed, “but what about Guantanamo?”
Tankies are so predictable.
Such bs.
Can’t USA and China both have problems? I don’t get why it’s always one or the other. Guess it helps not living in either.