2010年1月8日 · Rebiya Kadeer is a human rights defender, a former prisoner of conscience, and a leader of the Uyghur people. The Uyghurs are Turkic Muslims from China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region, which most Uyghurs call by its former name, East Turkistan. Born into a poor family, Kadeer became the owner of a small business and eventually one of the richest ...