{"id":167750,"date":"2014-01-15T10:46:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T18:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=167750"},"modified":"2014-01-15T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T01:32:08","slug":"uyghur-scholar-mother-seized-police-says-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/01\/uyghur-scholar-mother-seized-police-says-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Uyghur Scholar Seized by Police, Says Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid an <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/09\/xinjiang-authorities-place-state-religion\/\">atmosphere of turbulence<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/12\/police-shoot-eight-dead-xinjiang-attack\/\">unrest in China&#8217;s Xinjiang region<\/a>, central authorities have announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/01\/xinjiang-see-major-strategy-shift\/\">regional policy will see a &#8220;major shift&#8221; towards maintaining social stability<\/a>. The Guardian reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jan\/15\/uighur-scholar-mother-chinese-police-ilham-tohti\"><strong>Ilham Tohti, a\u00a0Beijing-based Uyghur economist and outspoken researcher of Uyghur-Han relations<\/strong><\/a>, has been detained by police along with his mother:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chinese police have taken an Uighur scholar and his mother from their home in Beijing, a website connected to the professor said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ilham Tohti, 45, is known for pressing the rights of the Uighur ethnic minority in\u00a0<a title=\"More from the Guardian on Xinjiang\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/xinjiang\">Xinjiang<\/a>\u00a0and for questioning state policies in the troubled north-west region, where scores have died in unrest over the last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Uighurbiz.net website said police seized Tohti and his mother between 3pm and 4pm local time on Wednesday, citing a phone call from his wife. The site, which is hosted overseas, was inaccessible on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u00a0Tohti, who lectures on economics at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing, has been an outspoken commentator on Uighur issues. [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jan\/15\/uighur-scholar-mother-chinese-police-ilham-tohti\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As tensions have been rising in China&#8217;s far west in past months, Tohti has spoken to to foreign media outlets, alleging\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/09\/xinjiang-authorities-place-state-religion\/\">heavy surveillance<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/04\/uighur-scholar-ilham-tohti-in-ugly-confrontation-with-security-agents\/?_r=1\">intimidation<\/a>\u00a0by national security officials. Following the <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/xinjiang-protests-2009\/\">2009 riots in Urumqi<\/a>, Tohti spent <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/08\/china-rights-lawyer-released-from-detention\/\">a month in detention<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid an atmosphere of turbulence and unrest in China&#8217;s Xinjiang region, central authorities have announced that regional policy will see a &#8220;major shift&#8221; towards maintaining social stability. 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