Shohret Hoshur

Shoret Hoshur (Uyghur: شۆھرەت ھوشۇر; born 1965) is a Chinese-born American journalist working for Radio Free Asia.

[2][3] He left China in 1994 when his journalism got him "into trouble with the authorities" and now works for Radio Free Asia in Washington, D.C.[2] According to the New York Times, Hoshur's "accounts of violence in his homeland are among the few reliable sources of information about incidents in a part of China that the government has sought to hide from international scrutiny".

[3] Chinese authorities accused Hoshur of instigating the July 2009 Ürümqi riots with his reporting.

[2][3][4][5] He was credited by McClatchey in October 2015 as being the sole journalist able to get accurate news out of Xinjiang Province, China.

[2] Hoshur calls the arrests and trials of his brothers "thin excuses to justify the continued harassment of me as a journalist reporting on events in China's Uighur region".