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Ilham Tohti

Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN HL1148, tabled on 7 October 2024

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken, if any, to secure the release of the Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti.

Answered on

15 October 2024

The Government publicly called for Professor Ilham Tohti's release on the ten-year anniversary of his sentence in September this year. We stand firm on human rights, including in Xinjiang where China continues to persecute and arbitrarily detain Uyghurs such as Professor Tohti. We raise our concerns at the highest levels of the Chinese government and coordinate efforts in international fora to hold China to account for human rights violations.