
Rayhan E. Asat
@rayhanasat
Human rights lawyer & international law scholar @harvard_law. @uniofoxford alum. Senior Legal & Policy Advisor @atlanticcouncil; previously @yale
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🧵As the U.S. Agency for Global Media continues to withhold congressionally appropriated funds, authoritarians continue to jail their journalists. That dictators feel it necessary to jail Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and Voice of America reporters speaks volumes about their value.

The cavalier destruction of Voice of America has hurt us in China and now in Iran. Unilateral disarmament. Deeply unwise. Voice of America


As a human rights lawyer and sister of a political prisoner, may I remind President Donald J. Trump, JD Vance & Secretary Marco Rubio that there are thousands of political prisoners in Iran who are locked up. For a populated city, people are either imprisoned or trapped. They can’t just evacuate. Also it’s

She is a Kiwi #Uyghur scholar whose brother is imprisoned by china. Please don’t diminish her success and address her appropriately. Second New Zealand PM can negotiate and be an advocate for her brother’s release. Too many families are torn apart by China newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/17/if-…

NYT: “Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, groups linked to the Chinese government have repeatedly hacked Russian companies and government agencies in an apparent search for military secrets, according to cyberanalysts.” Megha Rajagopalan nytimes.com/2025/06/19/wor…

Honored to be featured in University of Oxford Reuben College, Oxford magazine. Whatever I do in life, I carry the hopes and dreams of my brother Ekpar and community.



I am pleased to announce that the Court of Cassation, Argentina's highest criminal court, has ruled in favour of our Universal Jurisdiction case for crimes against humanity and genocide for World Uyghur Congress World Uyghur Congress, the Uyghur Human Rights Project Uyghur Human Rights Project,



Speaking as someone who has published with PUP, I find this to be breathtakingly ignorant and shameful. I can only hope that it is not misguided as it appears. Rayhan E. Asat Kenneth Roth Rory Truex Udi Ofer


