The Disappearance of Rahile Dawut: Uyghur Identity, State Repression

Portrait of Rahile Dawut, the Uyghur professor detained amid China’s crackdown on Uyghur intellectuals.

The case of Uyghur scholar Rahile Dawut has become one of the most powerful symbols of the ongoing human rights crisis facing Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region. Once celebrated as one of the leading experts on Uyghur folklore, traditions, and cultural heritage, Professor Dawut disappeared into China’s detention system and is now believed to be […]