{"id":1426,"date":"2019-10-25T08:57:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T08:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2019-10-25T08:59:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T08:59:02","slug":"congratulatory-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/?p=1426","title":{"rendered":"Congratulatory Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/\u0130lham-Tohti.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1427\" src=\"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/\u0130lham-Tohti.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"776\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/\u0130lham-Tohti.jpg 656w, https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/\u0130lham-Tohti-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The European Union Parliament has awarded Associate Professor Ilham Tohti, who is an economist in a Chinese prison with Sakharov Prize for free speech. The Uyghur Academy would like to congratulate Associate Professor Ilham Tohti for winning the prize.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Associate Professor Ilham Tohti is a hero who impressed the world with his determination and courage. Under the Chinese communist dictator regime, he courageously stood up and told the truth that millions of people couldn\u2019t, which is worth celebrating. This shows that he is a responsible scholar. The EU Parliament has acknowledged the scholar\u2019s courage for standing up for justice, which is also what the Uyghur people have been expecting. For this reason, the Uyghur Academy would like to thank the EU Parliament.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">From the Uyghur Academy\u2019s perspective, the Sakharov Prize is awarded to Associate Professor Ilham Tohti\u2019s courage and his conscious. It also celebrates the Uyghur scholars\u2019 and Uyghur people\u2019s pursuit of justice.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">There are hundreds of Uyghur scholars in East Turkistan who are in so-called \u201cre-education camps,\u201d going through a traumatic time. They also deserve to be celebrated. The Chinese government is violating its constitution and committing a crime against humanity. The Uyghur Academy calls the international community to remember and condemn the Chinese government for sentencing Associate Professor Ilham Tohti, Professor Tashpolat Teyip, and Professor Halmurat Ghopur to death sentences and demand their release.\u00a0 Moreover, the international community should also demand the Chinese government to close the concentration camps and release millions of innocent people.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Uyghur Academy<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">October 24, 2019<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union Parliament has awarded Associate Professor Ilham Tohti, who is an economist in a Chinese prison with Sakharov Prize for free speech. The Uyghur Academy would like to congratulate Associate Professor Ilham Tohti for winning the prize. Associate Professor Ilham Tohti is a hero who impressed the world with his determination and courage. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}