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Episode:

Let the Uyghurs Go

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 01:03:28
Publish Date: 2022-12-19 04:00:00
Description:

The Uyghurs are a Turkic Muslim people who live in a Central Asian land usually called Xinjiang. They have been – and are being – brutally oppressed by China’s Communist rulers. There can be no debate about that.

Nury Turkel was born in a detention center in Xinjiang. As a young adult, he made his way to America, where he became the first Uyghur to earn a law degree at an American university.

Today, he is a prominent human rights attorney, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, and he serves as chairman of USCIRF – the U.S. Commission on International Freedom – appointed by Nancy Pelosi.

He has also written a memoir and call to action. Its title: No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs.

He joins Cliff to discuss his life, his book, and what remains a dire situation in Xinjiang. 

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