Our speakers were:
- Sean Roberts
- Nury Turkel
- Mihrigul Tursun.
Sean Roberts, Director, International Development Program, Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.
Roberts is the author of the book The War on the Uyghurs, which has just been released by Princeton University Press. Nury Turkel, who was just appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a Commissioner to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. He is also the co-founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Council.
Mihrigul Tursun, a Uyghur who survived the camps in Xinjiang. She now resides in Washington, DC. Special thanks to our event co-sponsors: Congregation Beth Shalom, Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.