Shocking news about the life imprisonment given to @Dolkun_Isa's brother, who like many #Uyghurs, were put into one of the many camps in #Xinjiang and lost contact with family members until the news of him being sentenced to life resurfaced.
https://twitter.com/UyghurCongress/status/1398685562907865089
‘’I am truly heartbroken to hear this news. My brother is an innocent man. He was punished because of my activism and work as a human rights activist," said @Dolkun_Isa.
‘’This is the third consecutive year that I have received such heartbreaking news, first learning that my mother died in a camp in 2019, and in 2020, I learned about my father’s death in a propaganda paper."
"And now in 2021, I learn about my brother’s life-sentence. The Chinese government is using hostage diplomacy in an attempt to silence me and Uyghurs abroad.’’
Just last week, another prominent #Uyghur activist @AbduwelA's niece was confirmed to have died in one of the camps in #Xinjiang. She returned to Xinjiang after facing repeatedly pressure from family. rfa.org/english/news/u…
"Mihray Erkin returned to the XUAR in August 2019 after authorities in Kashgar put her parents under pressure to call her home. In late 2020, RFA’s Uyghur Service reported that Erkin was believed to have died while in detention in one of the internment camps."
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