User:Halvar Uyghur/sandbox

Halmurat Harri Uyghur (or Murat Harri Uyghur or Halmurat Uyghur Elsöy, Uyghur: خالمۇرات ئەلسۆي ئۇيغۇر‎; Chinese: 哈穆拉提 · 哈瑞·维吾尔; born April 1985) an ethnic Uyghur based in Finland has had both of his parents detained. His mother and father were held in a concentration camp in Turpan. They are only two of the millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and others suffering under China’s internment camps in the Uyghur autonomous region. Halmurat Harri Uyghur started a campaign for his parent’s release and for the release of millions of other innocent detainees of internment camps. UyghurAid was generated and developed from the #FreeMyParents campaign. Eventually, Halmurat's parents were released on December 24, 2018. Halmurat, however, has continued his activism in order to assist others. He has been interviewed over 600 times by international media, he has launched MeTooUyghur campaign, which is a key shifting point for creating awareness of concentration camps. He has traveled 26 countries, gave speeches, and attended panels in over 16 universities, including Cambridge University. He is a well known Uyghur activist among Uyghurs and intellectuals who study the contemporary Uyghur situation. He is in an important role in an award-winning documentary of France 24 "Surviving China's Uyghur camps" and Taiwan's The Reporter's "再教育营".