China calls EU rights prize-winning Uighur ‘a terrorist’

China called jailed Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti a “terrorist” yesterday and refused to confirm whether he was still alive, after his daughter accepted a European Parliament human rights award on his behalf.

Tohti -- a former economics professor sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 by Beijing for “separatism” -- was announced as the winner of the Sakharov Prize in October.