SPOTLIGHT ABDUWELI AYUP

n a small building painted white in the Norwegian town of Bergen, an unusual Sunday school lesson is taking place. Abduweli Ayup is teaching a group of Uyghur children their mother tongue. Were this lesson happening in China it would be a dangerous political act. For the Uyghur minority, expressing their culture has seen more than a million detained in re-education camps. After establishing a series of Uyghur-language schools in China, Abduweli, a quiet, serious linguistics professor by training, found