Rebiya Kadeer is a prominent Uyghur businesswoman and political activist from the northwest region of Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China. In 1999 she was detained, tried and imprisoned by PRC authorities on charges of "leaking state secrets", having sent newspaper clippings to her husband Sidik Rouzi, an expatriate living in the United States who is active in protesting Chinese policies towards the Uyghurs. Wikipedia
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