Ilham Tohti’s Sakharov Prize Will Drive Beijing Crazy
The imprisoned Uighur economist represents an entire people under attack by China. BY JAMES PALMER | OCTOBER 24, 2019, 1:53 PM The Uighur economist Ilham Tohti, currently held in a Chinese prison, has just been awarded the 2019 Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament. But who is he, and what does it mean? Foreign Policy has you covered. What’s the Sakharov Prize? Officially the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the prestigious human rights award was founded in 1988 in…
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