Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Ilham Tohti (; ; born October 25, 1969) is a Uyghur economist serving a life sentence in China, on separatism related charges. Iye mutsigiri anoshingaira wekushandiswa kwemitemo yekuzvitonga kwematunhu muChina, aive muenzi we "Uyghur Online", webhusaiti yakavambwa muna 2006 iyo inokurukura nyaya dzeUyghur, uye anozivikanwa nekutsvaga kwake paUyghur-Han hukama. Ilham akashevedzwa achibva kumba kwake kuBeijing ndokusungwa nguva pfupi pashure pokunge
Chikunguru 2009 Ürümqi mhirizhonga nezviremera nekuda kwekushoropodzwa kwake kwemitemo yehurumende yeChinese kune maUyghur muXinjiang. Ilham akasunungurwa musi wa 23 Nyamavhuvhu mushure mekumanikidzwa kwenyika dzakawanda nekupomerwa. Akasungwa zvakare muna Ndira 2014 ndokuiswa mutirongo mushure memutongo wemazuva maviri. Nokuda kwebasa rake mukutarisana nematambudziko akapiwa &lt;a href="PEN/Barbara%20Goldsmith%20Freedom%20to%20Write%20Award"&gt;PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award&lt;/a&gt; (2014), Martin Ennals Award (2016), Václav Havel Human Rights Prize (2019), uye Sakharov Prize (2019). Ilham anoonekwa somunhu ane mwero uye anotenda kuti Xinjiang inofanira kupiwa kuzvitonga maererano nemitemo yezvematongerwe enyika.