Rebiya Kadeer
Rebiya Kadeer (* July 15, 1948 in the Altai Mountains, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China ) is a Uighur human rights activist and president of the World Uyghur Congress ( WUC ). She stands up for the rights of the Uyghur in the People's Republic of China, who live primarily in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. It endeavors to influence international opinion in favor of the Uighur minority, and is thus, in particular in the U.S. and the Western world heard.
Biography
After divorcing her first husband, the 27 -year-old mother of six in the textile trade made entrepreneurial self. She had so much success that it belonged to two department stores in Urumqi at the end.
In 1978 she married the former Uighur resistance fighters Sidik Rouzi and has with him. Further three children and two adopted children She became the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Xinjiang and elected to the political Consultative Conference of the Chinese people in 1992. Soon after, she was active as a defender of women's rights and was a member of the delegation of the Chinese government, which participated in the World Conference of the United Nations in Beijing in 1995.
Kadeer held an 1997 speech to the Political Consultative Conference of the Chinese people, in which they condemned the policy of the Chinese government sharply in the autonomous region of Xinjiang. Shortly thereafter, she was expelled from the People's Congress. Also in 1997 she founded the "Thousand Mothers Movement" to promote the rights of women and their opportunities for economic activity.
In 1999, she was sentenced because of the proliferation of state secrets to eight years in prison - she had passed U.S. House of Representatives newspaper article for her husband, who were at that time, however, long since been released. On March 17, 2005, she was released early due to international pressure. Kadeer then followed her husband into exile, escaped shortly after a stop ( January 2006) and now lives in the United States. Five of their children continue to be arrested and persecuted in China. In 2004 she received the Norwegian Human Rights Award Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize. China justified the repressive measures of the fight against " separatism, terrorism and religious fanaticism ". November 2006 she was elected in Munich, as President of the World Uyghur Congress, but continues to live in the U.S. exile.
Literature and autobiographical source
- Rebiya Kadeer and Alexandra Cavelius: The sky striker. China's state enemy # 1 talks about her life. Heyne, München 2007, ISBN 978-3-453-12082-2