China punishes jailed Uighur doctor for my activism, says daughter in US
Gulshan Abbas disappeared in 2018, but source says she was charged for terrorism in 2019
31 December 2020 - 11:25
Washington — The US called on Wednesday for the release of a Uighur 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 US.
The daughter of Gulshan Abbas told a briefing organised with the bipartisan US congressional-executive commission on China (CECC) that the family had recently learnt her mother received the sentence in March 2019 on terrorism-related charges after disappearing in September 2018...
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