Uyghur American elected as chairman of US Commission on International Religious Freedom

Uyghur-American lawyer Nury Turkel, who was born in Kashgar in a detention camp during China’s Cultural Revolution was unanimously elected chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). He was the first Uyghur-American to be appointed in USCIRF in 2020 – a bipartisan and independent federal government body. The new religious freedom […]