Chinese Minority Scholar

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  Imprisoned Chinese Minority Scholar Given Human Rights Award

  A group of advocacy organizations has awarded its annual prize for human rights defenders to imprisoned Chinese Muslim minority economics professor Ilham Tohti, shining new attention on a case that has brought strong international condemnation.

• Minority Scholar Denies Separatism Charges at China Trial

  A Muslim Uighur scholar accused of separatism sought to show on Thursday that his writings and classroom lectures, including rhetoric saying Chinese are dragons and Uighurs are wolves, were not a campaign to split his native Xinjiang region from China.

• Chinese Minority Scholar Indicted for Separatism

  An outspoken Chinese minority scholar was indicted on separatism charges amid a renewed flare-up of bloody anti-government violence in the country's far west.

• Chinese Minority Scholar Indicted for Separatism

  An outspoken Chinese minority scholar has been indicted on separatism charges amid continuing anti-government violence in the country's far west.