The jailed folk singer at the front line of the Uighur struggle
AlJazeera Abdurehim Heyit unites Uighurs, intimidates China and makes the world pay attention to our plight only with his music. Last August, a United Nations anti-discrimination panel shocked the world by reporting that up to one million members of the Uighur community - a Muslim, Turkic-speaking minority in China - were forced into internment camps in the country's western Xinjiang region. The revelation ...
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