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Jewher Ilham: Fears for her Uighur family in China
A systematic policy of repression of the Muslim Uighur population in China is well documented. It 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 Uighur population of Xinjiang province in China. Jewher Ilham, a young Uighur woman, currently living in America, tells Stephen Sackur about her campaign to save her father who has been imprisoned for the past 7 years. The fate of the Uighurs has become a geopolitical issue - but is anything going to change?
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