Hu Jia calls for action ‘to prevent Ilham Tohti from dying in prison like Liu Xiaobo’
The human rights activist speaks out on the fate Ilham Tohti, an economics professor sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 for "separatism". In reality, he had denounced the Chinese government's crackdown on the Uyghur people and is now serving his sentence in a prison in Urumqi. He has not seen his family for three years. It is important to “keep him in the international spotlight. All of these actions can help him survive”.
