We Want to Determine Our Own Fate

Dolkun Isa, President of the World Uyghur Congress

Tempo

February 12, 2019

From Brussels, Belgium, Dolkun Isa can only wonder what is happening with his family in Xinjiang, who have been imprisoned by the Chinese government. For the past two years, this man who leads the Uyghur community in exile has not heard any news regarding the whereabouts of his father, Isa Memet, and two brothers. His mother, Ayhan Memet, died in a re-education camp for Uyghurs in May, 2018, after being detained for a year. “I found ou

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