Receiving the 2019 Sakharov Prize on behalf of her father, academic Ilham Tohti, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment in China, Jewher Ilham called on the European Parliament on Wednesday 18 December to act in favour of the Uighur Muslim minority that is being persecuted in China.
“The Uighur people need you”, she told MEPs in her acknowledgment speech, saying that the Sakharov Prize brought the attention of the EU and the world to the plight of more than 1 million Uighurs...