num_pages: 192
description: The words of Chinas most famous political prisonerIn Xinjiang the large northwest region of China the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in re-education camps. One of the incarceratedwhose sentence unlike most others has no end dateis Ilham Tohti an intellectual and economist a prolific writer and formerly the host of a website Uyghur Online. In 2014 Tohti was arrested; accused of advocating separatism violence and the overthrow of the Chinese government; subjected to a two-day trial; and sentenced to life. Nothing has been heard from him since.Here are Tohtis own words a collection of his plain-spoken calls for justice scholarly explanations of the history of Xinjiang and poignant personal reflections. While his courage and outspokenness about the plight of Chinas Muslim minorities is extraordinary these essays sound a measured insistence on peace and just treatment for the Uyghurs.Winner of the PEN/Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought while imprisoned this book is nonetheless the only way to hear from a man who has been called a Uyghur Mandela.
language: English
title: We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks
publisher: Verso