The Norway-based Uyghur Hjelp Foundation broke the news, that the prominent publisher Erkin Emet from the Uyghur minority in China has now been sentenced to prison. The claim was supported by officials in Xinjiang.65-year old Erkin Emet published books about the uyghur cultural identity and China's persecution of the ethnic minority. In 2018 the Norwegian foundation compiled a list of detained intellectuals in Xinjiang, which revealed he was taken into custody in July 2018. This was said by the organization's founder Abduweli Ayup.
The Chinese government denies human rights violations and says it has taken steps to eliminate separatism and extremism in its western Xinjiang region.
As the Chinese government tightened its grip over its ethnic Uyghur population, it sentenced one man to death and three others to life in prison last year for textbooks drawn in part from historical resistance movements that had once been sanctioned by the ruling Communist Party.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) As the Chinese government tightened its grip over its ethnic Uyghur population, it sentenced one man to death and three others to life in prison last year for textbooks drawn in part from historical resistance movements that had once been sanctioned by the ruling Communist Party.