Campaign for Uyghurs

SAR Spotlight on Jewher Ilham

“My father was trying to be a peaceful bridge between Han Chinese and Uyghurs,” said Jewher Ilham. “He never advocated for independence, never advocated for violence.” In this SAR Spotlight, we feature Jewher Ilham, the daughter of imprisoned Uyghur scholar Ilham

US Blacklists 28 Chinese Entities Citing Rights Abuses in Xinjiang

The U.S. Department of Commerce has blacklisted 28 governmental or commercial entities from China it said are implicated in rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic Muslim minorities in the country’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The XUAR’s Public Security

Faces of religious persecution: Jewher Ilham

Jewher Ilham was 18 when she and her father were set to board a plane to visit the United States in 2013 and Chinese authorities stopped and arrested him. Jewher and her father are Uighur Muslims, a persecuted ethnic minority group. “The

Congress must take action on Chinese human rights abuses

“It has become a crime to be Uighur in China.” Jewher Ilham, a Uyghur activist from China, made this disturbing assertion this week at a religious freedom event on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting, the first such