Abduweli Ayup

Abduweli Ayup is a linguist and author of fifteen books. He was imprisoned in 2013 for running Uyghur-language kindergartens in his homeland and his memoir from jail, The Black Land, has been published in Uyghur, Turkish and English. Since 2019, Abduweli has lived with his family in Bergen, Norway, where he runs the human rights nonprofit Uyghur Hjelp and teaches Uyghur to the children of the diaspora.