Executive Director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project Mehmet Tohti describes how his entire family was arrested once he began to speak out against China’s treatment of the Uyghur population living in Xinjiang. Years later, three hours before he was set to publicly speak about the human rights abuses, he received a message telling him his mother was dead.
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