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Jewher Ilham - Uyghur Rights Activist

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News Channel HDLatest broadcast: on BBC News Channel HD

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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 Uyghur woman whose father has been imprisoned for seven years. The fate of the Uyghurs has become a geopolitical issue, but is anything going to change? Show less

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Presenter:
Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest:
Jewher Ilham

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