{"id":58674,"date":"2023-09-24T23:59:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T14:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/24\/chinese-authorities-uyghur-professor-rahile-dawut"},"modified":"2023-09-24T23:59:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T14:59:30","slug":"chinese-authorities-reportedly-sentence-uyghur-professor-to-life-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58674","title":{"rendered":"Chinese authorities reportedly sentence Uyghur professor to life in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights group says Rahile Dawut lost appeal after being convicted in 2018 on charges of promoting \u2018splittism\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A leading Uyghur professor who disappeared six years ago is reported to have sentenced to life in prison by Chinese authorities for \u201cendangering state security\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rahile Dawut, 57, who specialises in the study of Uyghur folklore and traditions and is considered an expert in her field, lost an appeal over her sentence after being convicted in 2018 on charges of promoting \u201csplittism\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/duihua.org\/life-sentence-for-professor-rahile-dawut-confirmed\/\">according<\/a> to the US-based Dui Hua Foundation human rights group.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/24\/chinese-authorities-uyghur-professor-rahile-dawut\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights group says Rahile Dawut lost appeal after being convicted in 2018 on charges of promoting \u2018splittism\u2019A leading Uyghur professor who disappeared six years ago is reported to have sentenced to life in prison by Chinese authorities for \u201cendan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,53,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-human-rights","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58695,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58674\/revisions\/58695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}