Uighur Current Affairs, GK & News
Pulitzer Prize 2021
Pulitzer Prize 2021 was recently conferred recently. Megha Rajagopalan, an Indian-origin journalist, has won this top journalism award of USA on June 11, 2021. Highlights Megha won the prize along with two contributors. She has won Prize for innovative investigative reports exposing infrastructure of prisons and mass internment camps which were built secretly by China ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2021
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: Megha Rajagopalan • Pulitzer Prize 2021 • Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting • Uighur • Uighur muslims • Xinjiang
Sakharov Prize: Jailed Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti wins
The European Union (EU) Parliament awarded the ‘Sakharov Prize for Human Rights’ to Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti (49), who has been jailed and sentenced to life imprisonment in China for “separatism”. The award was announced by European Parliament head David Sassoli, who also urged China to immediately release Ilham Tohti as well as called for ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2019
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: David Sassoli • European Union • Ilham Tohti • Sakharov Prize • Uighur