03
June 2025
Past Event
Unbroken: One Uyghur’s Fight for Freedom with Rushan Abbas

Event will also air live on this page.

 

 

Inquiries: tmagnuson@hudson.org.

Unbroken: One Uyghur’s Fight for Freedom with Rushan Abbas

Past Event
Hudson Institute
June 03, 2025
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03
June 2025
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.

 

 

Inquiries: tmagnuson@hudson.org.

Speakers:
YK
Representative Young Kim

United States Representative, Fortieth District of California

JW
Representative Joe Wilson

United States Representative, Second District of South Carolina

TS
Representative Tom Suozzi

United States Representative, Third District of New York

RA
Rushan Abbas

Author, Unbroken: One Uyghur’s Fight for Freedom and Executive Director, Campaign for Uyghurs

DB
Dean Baxendale

President, Optimum Publishing International

DW
Damon Wilson

President and CEO, National Endowment for Democracy

Moderator:
Olivia Enos
Olivia Enos

Senior Fellow

Listen to Event Audio

Human rights advocate and Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs Rushan Abbas will officially launch her memoir, Unbroken: One Uyghur’s Fight for Freedom, at Hudson with Olivia Enos and other experts.

In this book, Abbas shares her story of growing up in Xinjiang and becoming one of the most prominent voices speaking out against atrocities committed by the Chinese Communist Party against the Uyghur people. Unbroken is a story of identity, personal loss, resistance, and resilience in the face of injustice.

Join Hudson for a discussion of the book and the ways the United States and other countries can support the Uyghur people in their time of need.

Lunch will be served.

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