Politics

US demands release of Uygur doctor sentenced to 20 years’ jail while China calls for a halt to ‘smears’




The United States called on Wednesday for the release of a Uygur Muslim medical doctor whose relatives say she was sentenced to 20 years in jail in China because of family members’ human rights activism in the United States.The daughter of Gulshan Abbas told a briefing organised with the bipartisan US Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) that the family had recently learned her mother received the sentence in March last year on terrorism-related charges after disappearing in…



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