In July 2019, Mehmet Tohti was just hours away from speaking publicly to politicians about the Chinese government’s horrific abuse of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang when he received a message on Twitter: “Your f—ing mother is dead,” it read.
Trudeau says China must address world’s ‘significant’ concerns on Uyghur abuse Tohti had lost contact with his mother in late 2016, three years earlier.