Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: Ilham Tohti (; ; born October 25, 1969) is a Uyghur economist serving a life sentence in China, on separatism-related charges. O ia o se faufautua leotele mo le faatinoina o tulafono o le tutoatasi i le itulagi i Saina, o ia o le talimalo o le "Uyghur Online", o se upega tafaʻilagi na faavaeina i le 2006 lea e talanoaina ai mataupu Uyghur, ma ua lauiloa mo ana suʻesuʻega i sootaga Uyghur-Han. Sa valaauina Ilham mai lona fale i Beijing ma taofia i se taimi puupuu ina ua mavae le
Iulai 2009 Ürümqi vevesi e le pulega ona o lana faitioga i faiga faavae a le malo o Saina i Uyghurs i Xinjiang. Na faasaʻoloto Ilham i le aso 23 o Aokuso ina ua uma le uunaʻiga ma le faasalaina faavaomalo. Na toe pueina o ia ia Ianuari 2014 ma sa falepuipui ina ua mavae se faamasinoga e lua aso. Mo lana galuega i le feagai ai ma faigata na ia mauaina le &lt;a href="PEN/Barbara%20Goldsmith%20Freedom%20to%20Write%20Award"&gt;PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award&lt;/a&gt; (2014), le Martin Ennals Award (2016), le Václav Havel Human Rights Prize (2019), ma le Sakharov Prize (2019). O Ilham e manatu i ai o se tagata e faautauta ma talitonu e tatau ona tuuina atu ia Xinjiang le tutoatasi e tusa ai ma mataupu faavae faatemokalasi.