{"id":619,"date":"2022-03-19T19:13:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T16:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2022-04-03T22:17:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T19:17:18","slug":"619-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"Concerns after NZ Uyghur Fulbright scholar subjected to walkout, &#8216;bullying&#8217; at US university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__intro sics-component__story__paragraph\">The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) is \u201cconcerned\u201d a New Zealand Fulbright scholar has suffered the ignominy of dozens of classmates walking out of a US lecture theatre when she brought up Uyghur politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">The scholar is Rizwangul NurMuhammad\u200b, one of the subjects of\u00a0<em>Stuff\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/interactives.stuff.co.nz\/2021\/03\/the-disappeared-uyghur-new-zealanders-terrified-for-missing-loved-ones-in-xinjiang\/\">Deleted<\/a>\u00a0series.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/resources.stuff.co.nz\/content\/dam\/images\/4\/y\/r\/k\/1\/q\/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.710x400.4yxpnd.png\/1647658898171.jpg?format=pjpg&amp;optimize=medium\" alt=\"Rizwangul (Riz) NurMuhammad, whose discussion of Uyghur politics sparked a mass walkout, is a New Zealand citizen who has been living in Auckland since 2010.\" width=\"710\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rizwangul (Riz) NurMuhammad, whose discussion of Uyghur politics sparked a mass walkout, is a New Zealand citizen who has been living in Auckland since 2010.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">She has been fighting for years for the release of her brother Mewlan, who was detained in the Chinese province of Xinjiang in 2017 for \u201csecession\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">Mewlan was taken during his lunch break and, despite no evidence of a trial, sentenced to nine years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fourth-par-video\" class=\"sics-component__oovvuu-recommendation\">\n<div class=\"sics-component__oovvuu-recommendation--collapse\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">NurMuhammad is a NZ citizen who lives in Auckland. She is completing a Masters at Cornell University&#8217;s Institute of Public Affairs under a Fulbright scholarship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">She told\u00a0<em>Stuff<\/em>\u00a0that since the walkout she feels worried for her safety and let down by the Ivy League university, which has been criticised for the way it has handled the considerable fallout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">The incident has sparked a conversation about the potential influence of Chinese international student money on academic freedom, a debate that has been simmering in academia in recent years.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 480px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-619-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Concerns-after-NZ-Uyghur-Fulbright-scholar-subjected-to-walkout-bullying-at-US-university-Stuff.co_.nz_.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Concerns-after-NZ-Uyghur-Fulbright-scholar-subjected-to-walkout-bullying-at-US-university-Stuff.co_.nz_.mp4\">https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Concerns-after-NZ-Uyghur-Fulbright-scholar-subjected-to-walkout-bullying-at-US-university-Stuff.co_.nz_.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/300544537\/concerns-after-nz-uyghur-fulbright-scholar-subjected-to-walkout-bullying-at-us-university?fbclid=IwAR1Jst0pR-_XbapxV4jozJhhUSksmoRsK90d2mei39Kot-mlJeYrCCd8AdY\">More News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) is \u201cconcerned\u201d a New Zealand Fulbright scholar has suffered the ignominy of dozens of classmates walking out of a US lecture theatre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[35,33,24,25,36,34,23,26],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cin","tag-doguturkistan","tag-eastturkistan","tag-genocide","tag-killerchina","tag-soykirim","tag-uyghur","tag-uygur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}