Dolkun Isa Dolkun Isa is the President of the World Uyghur Congress. He was a student-leader of pro-democracy demonstrations at the Xinjiang University in 1988 and founded the Students’ Science and Culture Union at the university in 1987 working on programs to eliminate illiteracy, promote science and lead other students in East Turkistan. After enduring persecution from the Chinese government, he fled China in 1994 and sought asylum in Europe, and became a German citizen in 2006. He has worked to mobilize the Uyghur diaspora community to collectively advocate for their rights. In 1997, an Interpol Red Notice was issued against him, which was deleted 21 years later, in 2018. This has led to his detention and deportation from many different country borders. He has been presenting Uyghur human rights issues to the UN Mechanisms, European Parliament, national parliaments and governments and international human rights organizations. He has testified before the European Parliament Human Rights Subcommittee, the German Bundestag, UK Parliament, Italian Senate, French Parliament and US Congress speaking about the atrocity crimes unfolding in East Turkistan. In May 2018, his mother Ayhan Mehmet died in a concentration camp. He was also the Vice-President of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) from 2017 - 2022, where he also defended the rights of unrepresented groups around the world. He regularly provides commentaries on TV, radio and articles, including BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, DW, ARD, the New York Times, Washington Post, France 24 and Bayerischer Rundfunk. In 2016, he received the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s Human Rights Award. In May 2019, he received, on behalf of the WUC, the 2019 Democracy Award from the National Endowment for Democracy in the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. He holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Gazi University in Ankara and a Bachelors in Computer Science.