Author

Dolkun Isa

Co-founder

Dolkun Isa is a co-founder and former leader of the World Uyghur Congress. He currently serves as President of the Uyghur Center for Democracy and Human Rights and holds positions on both the Asia Freedom Institute Advisory Board and the UNPO Presidency. Isa began his career as a student leader at Xinjiang University but was expelled due to his activism, after which he sought asylum in Germany in 1994. Internationally recognised for his advocacy on Uyghur human rights, Isa is the author of China Freedom Trap: My Life on the Run, and has been honoured with several awards, including the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Award (2016), the NED World Democracy Award (2019), and honorary membership in the German Society for Threatened Peoples (2023).