CAIR Condemns China’s Life Sentence for Uyghur Scholar, Calls on Muslim-Majority Nations to Do the Same

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/25/2023) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned a life sentence for a prominent Uyghur activist imposed by the Chinese government.   Rahile Dawut, 57, lost her appeal to a 2018 conviction for “endangering state security.” Dawut was a professor at Xinjiang University and renowned for … Continue reading CAIR Condemns China’s Life Sentence for Uyghur Scholar, Calls on Muslim-Majority Nations to Do the Same