May 28, 2019

China Change: Ilham Tohti Documentary

Name: China Change: Ilham Tohti Documentary
Uploaded: 2019-05-28T11:44:30-0400
Description: Ilham Tohti, a professor at Minzu University in Beijing and the foremost Uighur public intellectual in the People’s Republic of China, was sentenced to life in prison in September 2014 for advocating basic economic, cultural, religious and political rights for the Uighur people.

2015 documentary of Ilham Tohti by China Change. Includes interviews with Ilham Tohti and commentaries by Sakharov Prize laureate Hu Jia; Professor Elliot Sperling; Jewher Ilham, daughter of Ilham Tohti; former President of PEN American Center Peter Godwin; Director of Uighur Human Rights Project Alim Seytoff, and more.

Region / Country

Asia
China and Tibet

Topic

Free Speech

Protecting Rights, Saving Lives