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Rebiya Kadeer gives the Dalai Lama a hat. watch the video on Youtube.

Rebiya Kadeer being welcomed by her family in the USA after her release from prison in China.
Rebiya Kadeer in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region before she was imprisoned.

Friends in high places: Rebiya Kadeer with President Bush at 2007 Praque conderence on democracy. On the left is Rushan Abbas, vice president of the Uyghur American Association.

Friends of Rebiya Kadeer

Rebiya Kadeer's courageous stance against the Chinese authorities bullying and harassment of the Uyghur people has earnt her enormous respect amongst them and now more widely. On this page you will find links to more information about Rebiya Kadeer and her struggle against the repression of Uyghurs by the Chinese government.

In September 2007 the United States House of Representative passed the following resolution: 'Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of the People's Republic of China should immediately release from custody the children of Rebiya Kadeer and Canadian citizen Huseyin Celil and should refrain from further engaging in acts of cultural, linguistic, and religious suppression directed against the Uyghur people, and for other purposes'.

• In response to Rebiya Kadeer's visit to the UK and meeting with parlimentarians in October 2007 an Early Day Motion has been tabled calling on the Chinese government to improve the human rights situation for Uighurs and particulary Rebiya Kadeer's children.
  
  
• New Statesman article about Rebiya Kadeer by Anita Roddick the founder of the UK's Body Shop chain of stores.
  
  
• The Wikipedia, entry for Rebiya Kadeer: a useful short biography.
  
  
• Amnesty International article about the persecution of Rebiya Kadeer's sons in China. One of her sons has been given a seven year prison sentence and another has been given a nine year sentence. Both have received beatings while in detention.
  
  
• Harrowing account of Rebiyas children being badly beaten in front of their children from Radio Free Asia website.
  
  
• Washingon Post article October 2006: China's Iron Grip. Chinese agents found harrassing Rebiya Kadeer where she now lives in Wahington DC.
  
  
• The Rafto Foundation's website has information about Rebiya and her children currently persecuted in China. Rebiya won the prestigious Rafto Prize for Human Rights in 2004.
  
  
• Rafto Foundation article about Rebiya's Mysterious Car Crash in the United States.
  
  
• Listen to an interview with Rebiya Kadeer's daughter.
  
  
• News Profile from 2005 about Rebiya Kadeer.
  
  
• Excerpts from 2005 Radio Free Asia interview with Rebiya Kadeer focussing on Rebiya's aspirations for the role of Women in Uyghur Society and the philosophy behind her 1000 Mothers Project.
  
  
• Brief details of the original 1000 Mothers Project from Democracy Digest, The Bulletin of the Transatlantic Democracy Network. You may need to search for 'kadeer' to find the relevant article.
  
  
• Rebiya Kadeer meets the Canadian prime minister to talk about the Chinese Government's abduction of Canadian citizen, Huseyin Celil.