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Jewher Ilham - Uyghur Rights Activist

Stephen Sackur talks to Jewher Ilham, daughter of an imprisoned Uighur academic in China. The fate of the Uighurs has become a geopolitical issue - but is anything going to change?

A combination of personal testimony, leaked documents and satellite imagery points to a systematic policy of repression of the Muslim Uyghur population of Xinjiang province in China. Stephen Sackur interviews Jewher Ilham, a young Uighur woman whose father, a Uighur academic, has been imprisoned for 7 years. The fate of the Uighurs has become a geopolitical issue - but is anything going to change?

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Tue 16 Mar 202103:30
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PresenterStephen Sackur
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