Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken, if any, to secure the release of the Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti.

The Government publicly called for Professor Ilham Tohti's release on the ten-year anniversary of his sentence in September this year. We stand firm on human rights, including in Xinjiang where China continues to persecute and arbitrarily detain Uyghurs such as Professor Tohti. We raise our concerns at the highest levels of the Chinese government and coordinate efforts in international fora to hold China to account for human rights violations.