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Rayhan Asat, a human rights lawyer of Uyghur heritage, told the wire service.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
In Oxford, England, a video uploaded to Twitter by Uyghur human rights campaigner Rayhan Asat appeared to show another small vigil held outside the university town’s Bodleian Library on Sunday.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2022
Rayhan Asat, a human rights lawyer based in the US whose brother Ekpar Asat has been in a prison camp since 2016, reacted to the report with "complex emotions".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2022
Rayhan Asat, a lawyer whose younger brother is imprisoned in Xinjiang, said Ms. Bachelet’s comments “show a total disregard for the Uyghur people’s suffering.”
From New York Times ● May 28, 2022
U.S-based human rights lawyer Rayhan Asat — whose brother Ekpar Asat is among more than 1 million Uyghurs that China has imprisoned — was at first aghast.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2022
Two years ago, a normally insouciant defense consultant with a high security clearance told me that a briefing he’d recently received on Russia and China’s anti-satellite, or ASAT, programs left him “shaken.”
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2024
Space Command, told reporters on a teleconference from Hawaii that such ASAT, or anti-satellite, tests congest space with debris.
From Reuters ● Dec. 9, 2022
Debris from the 2007 ASAT, for example, remains aloft nearly 15 years later, periodically endangering spacecraft.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2021
The in-orbit test was described as a “non-destructive” test of a space-based anti-satellite weapon, known as an ASAT, that was carried out July 15.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 23, 2020
It is believed to be the 10th test of this anti-satellite, or ASAT, technology, but it’s unclear if the missile actually destroyed anything in space.
From The Verge ● Apr. 15, 2020
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