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Gulchehra Hoja

Gulchehra Hoja
Gulchehra Hoja is a Uyghur journalist based in the United States. Her reporting on the situation in East Turkestan (commonly known as the Xinjiang Autonomous Province) for Radio Free Asia—which led to the incarceration of her entire extended family—has been widely recognized in the US and Europe. She has earned honors such as the 2019 Magnitsky Human Rights Award; the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation in 2020; recognition as one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world every year since 2016; and an appearance at the 2020 Oslo Freedom Forum. She has been profiled for The Washington Post and The Financial Times, among many other publications.


How China’s Uyghurs Are Marginalized and Subjugated by the State

Gulchehra Hoja Recounts Her Harrowing Experience at the Hands of Xinjiang Police
February 23, 2023  By Gulchehra Hoja
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