Vice President of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 November 2023
Preceded by
Abdulahat Nur
Personal details
Born
1977 Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang
Nationality
Swedish
Spouse
Uali Islam
Children
2
Occupation
physician and headteacher
Known for
whistleblower about the persecution of Uyghurs in China
This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by her given name, Sayragul, and not as Sauytbay.
Sayragul Sauytbay (Kazakh: Сайрагүл Сауытбай; born 1977) is a Kazakh doctor, headteacher and whistleblower[1] from China. In 2018, she fled China and then told the media about the Xinjiang internment camps resembling modern-day concentration camps where people are "re-educated" in China. She became one of the first victims of these camps in the world to speak publicly about the Chinese repressive campaign against Muslims, igniting a movement against these abuses.[2] Sweden offered her political asylum after Kazakhstan refused, and she subsequently emigrated there.[2]
She was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in March 2020.[3]
In March 2021 she was awarded the Internationaler Nürnberger Menschenrechtspreis (the International Human Rights prize of the city of Nuremberg, Germany [4]), for 2021; the prize ceremony was held 15 May 2022.
Also in 2021, she testified among other survivors, as a witness at the Uyghur Tribunal in London.
On 11 November 2023 she was elected as the Vice President of the East Turkistan Government in Exile at the 9th East Turkistan General Assembly in Washington, DC.[5]
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^ ab"Biographies of the Finalists for the 2020 International Women of Courage Awards". United States Department of State. Archived from the original on 9 March 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
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^"US: Ninth East Turkistan General Assembly highlights Chinese atrocities against Uyghurs, other Turkic people". Asian News International. ANI. 13 November 2023. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
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