Prominent Uyghur Writer Dies After Being Deprived Treatment in Xinjiang Internment Camp
Radio Free Asia, 17 June 2019
By Shohret Hoshur – A prominent Uyghur writer has died after being deprived treatment for diabetes while held in an internment camp in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according to sources.
Nurmuhemmet Tohti, 70, was detained from November 2018 to March this year in China’s vast network of camps in the XUAR, where up to 1.5 million Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities accused of harboring “strong religious views” and “politically incorrect” ideas have been held since April 2017, his Canada-based granddaughter, Zorigul, recently reported.
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