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Hursan Hassan’s story is a Uighur tragedy: Activist
China, Opinion

Hursan Hassan’s story is a Uighur tragedy: Activist

The Executive Director of ‘Campaign for Uyghurs’ and activist Rushan Abbas has said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is replicating the tyranny of Mao Zedong by persecuting the intellectuals, the recent victim of it being Hursan Hassan, who has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.In an opinion article, Rushan compared the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" of 1966, initiated by Mao Zedong to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims in East Turkistan.She described the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" as a period during which millions of civil servants, writers and teachers were fired, elites and artists were attacked, many intellectuals were labeled "counter-revolutionaries," beaten or killed; others were sent to corrective labor camps.“The nations tha