{"id":5122,"date":"2021-01-01T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/01\/nowhere-to-be-found-harvard-coalition-says-us-must-fight-to-free-young-uighur-leader"},"modified":"2021-01-01T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T11:00:07","slug":"nowhere-to-be-found-harvard-coalition-says-us-must-fight-to-free-young-uighur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/01\/nowhere-to-be-found-harvard-coalition-says-us-must-fight-to-free-young-uighur\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nowhere to be found&#8217;: Harvard coalition says US must fight to free young Uighur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive: <\/strong>More than 70 Harvard student organisations sign open letter urging US state department to take stronger action over Ekpar Asat <\/p><p>The US government must do more to demand China release a Uighur man who was jailed for 15 years after participating in a state department exchange program, a coalition of Harvard University schools and student groups has said.<\/p><p>Ekpar Asat, a young entrepreneur from Xinjiang, disappeared in 2016 after returning from the US where he had been on the exchange program and visited his sister Rayhan, a Harvard law student. He had promised to come back to the US in a few months with their parents to watch her become Harvard\u2019s first ever Uighur graduate.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/01\/nowhere-to-be-found-harvard-coalition-says-us-must-fight-to-free-young-uighur-leader\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/01\/nowhere-to-be-found-harvard-coalition-says-us-must-fight-to-free-young-uighur-leader\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: More than 70 Harvard student organisations sign open letter urging US state department to take stronger action over Ekpar Asat The US government must do more to demand China release a Uighur man who was jailed for 15 years after participatin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,190,6,640,1323,57,1310,1324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5123,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/5123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}