{"id":1232,"date":"2014-09-29T23:53:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T23:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2014\/09\/29\/vigil-planned-uighur-writer\/"},"modified":"2014-09-29T23:53:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T23:53:43","slug":"vigil-planned-uighur-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/vigil-planned-uighur-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil Is Planned for Uighur Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PEN American Center will hold a vigil for the Uighur writer and academic Ilham Tohti on Monday evening in response to his being sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>SEPT. 28, 2014<\/p>\n<p>The PEN American Center will hold a vigil for the Uighur writer and academic Ilham Tohti on Monday evening in response to his being sentenced to life in prison. Mr. Tohti, an economics professor and vocal critic of the Chinese government on human rights and social issues, was sentenced last week by China on charges of separatism. The court stated that Mr. Tohti \u201cbewitched\u201d his students and \u201cexploited foreign forces to create pressure to make Xinjiang an international matter.\u201d Since his arrest in January, Mr. Tohti has received global attention from free-speech activists around the globe. In May he was awarded the 2014 PEN\/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Of the 38 writers who were in prison at the time they received the award, 35 have been subsequently released. The candlelight vigil on Monday is to feature the novelist Barbara Kingsolver, who will read a statement Mr. Tohti wrote in 2013, specifically in the event of his arrest. The vigil is scheduled for 8 p.m. outside the New School in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PEN American Center will hold a vigil for the Uighur writer and academic Ilham Tohti on Monday evening in response to his being sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}