China’s Fruitless Repression of the Uyghurs
Last week, a court in China’s far western East Turkistan (Xinjiang) region sentenced Ilham Tohti, a member of the Uyghur minority, to life in prison for the crime of “inciting separatism.” The conviction of this moderate scholar elicited international condemnation; the sentence was an order of magnitude longer than those given to other Chinese dissidents. But,…