Dolkun Isa

Dolkun Isa is currently the President of the Uyghur Center for Democracy and Human Rights and Former President and Co-Founder of the World Uyghur Congress, and the Author of the “China Freedom Trap”. He is a former student-leader of the pro-democracy movement in East Turkistan in 1988. He fled China in 1994. In 1997, he was added to the Interpol Red Notice list at the request of the Chinese government, leading to his detention at many country borders, only to be deleted in 2018. He has advocated for the rights of the Uyghurs at international forums. His mother died in a concentration camp in 2018 in China, and his two brothers were sentenced to long-term prison. In 2016, he was awarded by the Washington-based Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. In 2019, he received on behalf of the WUC, the NED World Democracy Award. In 2023, he was also awarded the honorary membership award by the German Society for Threatened Peoples. In 2020, he requested that Sir Geoffrey Nice QC establish an independent tribunal – Uyghur Tribunal to investigate ‘the Genocide’ against the Uyghurs.