39 results for 'Uyghurs'

Huseyin Celil

Huseyin Celil is a Canadian citizen and a Uyghur human rights activist originally from China who promoted the rights of China’s Uyghur minority.  In 2001, he fled China after being in jail for supporting the religious and political rights of the Uyghur people. The United Nations recognized him...

We have come far and have far to go still 

35 years ago, on a wintry evening in early 1985, I attended my first Amnesty International meeting.    I had just begun studying law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, with an entirely unformed notion of becoming […]