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HARDtalk: Jewher Ilham - Uyghur Rights Activist

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Stephen Sackur talks to Jewher Ilham, daughter of an imprisoned Uighur academic in China.

Stephen Sackur talks to Jewher Ilham, daughter of an imprisoned Uighur academic in China. The fate of the Uighurs 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 Uighur woman whose father, a Uighur academic, has been imprisoned for 7 years. The fate of the Uighurs has become a geopolitical issue - but is anything going to change?

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