Daughter of Chinese Uyghur prisoner makes emotional plea to Trump during spotlight Xi summit
An American woman whose mother has been wrongfully imprisoned in China for eight years is hoping that President Donald Trump will ask Chinese leader Xi Jinping for clemency during the high-profile ongoing summit between the pair of world leaders Thursday.
"We are doing everything we can to bring this in front of President Trump, and I know that if he knows about this case, he will care about this case," Ziba Murat told Fox News Digital in an emotional interview on her mother's continued imprisonment.
"I hope we are pulling the right levers and President Trump can bring her home." Dr.
Gulshar Abbas is Murat's mother.
She was 56 when she disappeared from her home on Sept.
10, 2018.
In December of that year, according to Murat, Chinese government officials confirmed in a press conference that Abbas was convicted on charges of taking part in organized terrorism, aiding terrorist activities and seriously disrupting social order — charges Murat describes as "made up" — and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
CHINA’S XI SET TO ARRIVE IN WASHINGTON FOR HIGH-STAKES TRUMP SUMMIT AS AI SUPREMACY BATTLE LOOMS LARGE "Her disappearance came six days after her sister, my aunt Rushan Abbas, spoke ... about what's happening to the Uyghur people back home, and then the Chinese government picked her up six days after," said Abbas.
"We didn't see it coming, honestly, because she is a retired doctor.
She's not a political person.
She's not an activist.
She's just a grandma and, you know — it took us almost two years to find out what happened to her [and] where she's being held." Rushan Abbas runs Campaign for Uyghurs , a large nonprofit advocacy group for the Muslim minority population in China, which has been subject to brutal oppression at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
MOTHER RECOUNTS HORRORS OF BRUTAL CHINESE DETENTION CAMP WHERE INFANT SON DIED Abbas' case is a prominent one.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has used his position and official office to advocate on her behalf.
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