BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities held a prominent Uighur academic in leg irons for 20 days and forced him to go without food, his lawyer said on Thursday, after seeing his client for the first time since he was arrested more than five months ago.
Ilham Tohti, an economics professor at Beijing's Minzu University who has championed the rights of the Muslim Uighur people in China's far western region of Xinjiang, was detained in January and subsequently charged with separatism.
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