Ghojaniyaz Yollugh Tekin Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison for Saying Uyghurs Are Part of the Turkic World — and Not Chinese
The Chinese government’s crackdown on Uyghur intellectuals and cultural figures has once again come into focus with the case of Ghojaniyaz Yollugh Tekin, a prominent Uyghur historian and researcher specializing in Uyghur toponymy. Tekin, a respected educator at the Aksu Education Institute in Xinjiang, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for his scholarly work … Read more