Washington, March 16 -- Rep. Chris Smith issued the following press release:
Dr. Gulshan Abbas, 63, a retired physician and ethnic Uyghur, was disappeared by Chinese authorities in September 2018 in China's western region of Xinjiang, after her sister, Rushan Abbas, publicly spoke out against the Chinese Communist Party's oppression of Uyghurs. Gulshan's family was unaware of her whereabouts until December 2020, when it was learned that a secret trial had taken place in March 2019 declaring Gulshan guilty for "taking part in organized terrorism, aiding terrorist activities and seriously disrupting social order."
Now, Gulshan is entering her eighth year of imprisonment. Her daughter, Ziba Murat, and Rushan told Military.com (http://militar...