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China: Poster supporting the East Turkistan Independence Movement in Xinjiang, condemned by the Chinese authorities as a separatist and sometimes terrorist organisation

China: Poster supporting the East Turkistan Independence Movement in Xinjiang, condemned by the Chinese authorities as a separatist and sometimes terrorist organisation

East Turkistan independence poster showing the blue-and-white separatist flag with a profile of the Ughur separatist leader Rebiya Kadeer superimposed.

Rebiya Kadeer (born 15 July 1948) is a prominent Uyghur businesswoman and political activist from the northwest region of Xinjiang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). She has been the president of the World Uyghur Congress since November 2006.

Kadeer has been active in defending the rights of the largely Muslim Uyghur minority, who she says has been subject to systematic oppression by the Chinese government. Kadeer is currently living in exile in the United States.

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