{"id":72078,"date":"2025-06-03T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/jun\/03\/exiled-pro-democracy-activist-on-being-uyghur-during-tiananmen-square-protests-video"},"modified":"2025-06-03T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:00:07","slug":"exiled-pro-democracy-activist-on-being-uyghur-during-tiananmen-square-protests-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72078","title":{"rendered":"Exiled pro-democracy activist on being Uyghur during Tiananmen Square protests – video"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1989, a young Uyghur named \u00d6rkesh D\u00f6let was a student leader in the Tiananmen Square protests. Throughout the protests, D\u00f6let represented students in televised negotiations with Chinese Communist Party leaders. After the massacre, the 21-year-old was put on China\u2019s list of most wanted student leaders and so he fled the country. He now lives in exile in Taiwan. \u2018For every important choices I make in my life, my Uyghur-ness has always came in and played an important role,’ he says. ‘That we do the right thing, not the safe thing.\u2019<\/p>\n

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In 1989, a young Uyghur named \u00d6rkesh D\u00f6let was a student leader in the Tiananmen Square protests. Throughout the protests, D\u00f6let represented students in televised negotiations with Chinese Communist Party leaders. After the massacre, the 21-year-old wa…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4779,"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":[50,74,431,2052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-taiwan","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","category-uyghurs"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72078","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\/4779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72079,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72078\/revisions\/72079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}