Dozens of members of the Uyghur community, as well as advocates and lawmakers, gathered on Capitol Hill in Washington this week to recognize the plight of the Uyghurs and other persecuted minorities in China
Zeynep Ablajan said she hasn't been able to speak to her husband, Yalkun Rozi, in over two years. He is a Uyghur scholar and textbook author who was detained in Xinjiang, China in October 2016. That was the last time she heard his voice.
"It is torturing looking back," she told CNN through a translator."I didn't expect that would be my last contact with my husband."Ablajan said that he was accused of"disseminating separatist ideology" and sentenced in 2018 to 15 years in prison -- a sentence Ablajan said was predetermined and came after a"sham trial." Ablajan said she doesn't know where her husband is.
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