Ilham Tohti Says
The Uyghur economics professor, and founder of Uyghurbiz website, is on trial today in Urumqi on separatism charges. The following excerpts were compiled by Ilham’s close friend and Tibetan writerTsering Woeser in February this year shortly after his arrest. – The editor Currently in East Turkistan (Xinjiang), a developing tendency is that the authorities are over-extending anti-terrorism measures to conceal other problems in…