China: Further information: Uighur academic sentenced to life: Ilham Tohti

Prominent Uighur scholar, Ilham Tohti, was sentenced to life imprisonment on 23 September in China. He is a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of his right to freedom of expression as an academic and writer. According to his lawyers, he was denied food for 10 days and has had his feet shackled in detention.

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