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HARDtalk: Jewher Ilham - Uyghur Rights Activist

Jewher Ilham - Uyghur Rights Activist

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Jewher Ilham - Uyghur Rights Activist

The fate of the Uyghurs has become a geopolitical issue, but is anything going to change?

Stephen Sackur interviews Uyghur rights activist Jewher Ilham. The fate of the Uyghurs in China 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 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?

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