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The words of Chinas most famous political prisoner

In Xinjiang the large northwest region of China the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in reeducation camps One of the incarceratedwhose sentence unlike most others has no end dateis Ilham Tohti an intellectual and economist a prolific writer and formerly the host of a website Uyghur Online In 2014 Tohti was arrested accused of advocating separatism violence and the overthrow of the Chinese government subjected to a twoday trial and sentenced to life Nothing has been heard from him since

Here are Tohtis own words a collection of his plainspoken calls for justice scholarly explanations of the history of Xinjiang and poignant personal reflections While his courage and outspokenness about the plight of Chinas Muslim minorities is extraordinary these essays sound a measured insistence on peace and just treatment for the Uyghurs

Winner of the PEN/Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought while imprisoned this book is the only way to hear from a man who has been called a Uyghur Mandela