Bavaria (Germany): Sayragul Sauytbay, a human rights activist and survivor from China's Xinjiang, has been awarded the 2021 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award, for highlighting the human rights abuses being meted to ethnoreligious minorities in the country's western region.
"By presenting Ms Sayragul Sauytbay with the 2021 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award, the City of Nuremberg honours a human rights activist whose fate in many aspects is exemplary for that of the ethnoreligious minorities in China," the Germany based rights organisation said in a statement.
Sauytbay's book, "The Chief Witness" for which she gave several interviews to author Alexandra Cavelius, is a report about the ''inconceivable crimes'' committed on a daily basis against Muslim minorities in China's "re-education camps" in Xinjiang.
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The rights body said that in spite of permanent threats and intimidation attempts by the Chinese Communist Party which is trying to silence her, she bears witness: "The world needs to know what happens in those camps and what the party is really planning."