Rahima Mahmut

about mahmut

Rahima has led efforts to stop the import of goods produced by forced Uyghur Labour, championed survivors, worked on the Uyghur Tribunal and contributing to a wide range of award-winning media projects. These have include translating the powerful prison memoir The Land Drenched in Tears by Soyungul Chanisheff (winner of the 2018 Pen Prize), produced music for the Al Jazeera documentary Living in the Unknown (winner of the 2020 Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling – Online Journalism Awards), and worked on the BAFTA-winning ITV documentary Undercover: Inside China’s Digital Gulag. She has also worked with Channel 4 Dispatches and the BBC on a range of projects.

Rahima currently serves as the UK Director of the World Uyghur Congress, Executive Director of Stop Uyghur Genocide, and an Advisor to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC). In addition, she is the lead vocalist of the Miras Silk Road Collective, an ensemble that unites musicians from diverse cultures along the ancient Silk Road, celebrating their shared cultural heritage.