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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".

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[-] diablexical@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

You have details about her case you’d care to share?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Considering the crime she was arrested for is "splittism," aka secessionism, but not terrorism, my guess is no.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/23/chinese-government-sentences-famed-uighur-scholar-to-life-in-prison

Unless someone wants to accuse Al Jazeera of being a Western Capitalist Pig CIA front, this article has a bit more details about her than most. I don't see anyone linking her socials where she calls for a Jihad or anything...

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