Works or worked at Radio Free Asia. Was a translator at Guantanamo.
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rushan-abbas-9987a16/
- Work experience:
- Sep 1991 – Jun 1994 (2 yrs 10 mos) | Research Laboratory Technician | Washington State University
- Oct 1998 – Jun 2000 (1 yr 9 mos) | Broadcaster/Reporter | Radio Free Asia
- Jun 2000 – Apr 2002 (1 yr 11 mos) | International Business-Development Manager | Perity Land Inc
- Apr 2002 – Feb 2003 (11 mos) | Consultant | DOD-Joint Task Force Guantanamo
- Feb 2003 - Apr 2009 (6 yrs 3 mos) | International Account specialist, Marketing Liaison | Pelco by Schneider Electric
- Apr 2009 – Sep 2010 (1 yr 6 mos) | International Trade and Marketing Consultant | Confidential
- Oct 2010 - Jun 2015 (4 yrs 9 mos) | International Program Manager, International Director | LEO A DALY
- Jun 2015 - Oct 2019 (4 yrs 5 mos) | Director of Business Development | ISI Consultants
- Oct 2019 – Present | Executive Director | Campaign for Uyghurs
- Was interviewed for A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices from Guantanamo.
- Was featured in the movie Uyghurs, Prisoners of the Absurd
# From the Italian report
In the United States, however, the Uyghur American Association (UAA) was already active since 1998, when it was founded by the activist Rushan Abbas, who moved to Washington in 1989 to pursue her studies. Having obtained US citizenship, Abbas initially founded, in 1993, the Uyghur Overseas Student and Scholars Association and then, five years later, she became the first Uyghur-language correspondent for Radio Free Asia, a Washington-based private, non-profit corporation created in 1994 on the model of Radio Free Europe and financed through the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which is defined as an “independent federal government agency”
Since 2002, Rushan Abbas has frequently collaborated, as an interpreter, with the State Department and the United States Congress in the context of Operation Enduring Freedom, the official name for the “war on terror” launched by the Pentagon in Afghanistan following the terrorist attacks of September 11th. He also participated in several congressional hearings on the human rights situation, history and culture of the Uyghur population, as well as making his knowledge available to various US federal and military agencies.1
# Allegations
- She is a CIA asset because…
- …she worked at Guantanamo!
- …her ISI Consultants page says she worked for intelligence agencies!2
- Pretty sus
- …she worked for the US Department of Justice and State Department!
- To assist them with resettling the Guantanamo Uyghurs in different countries.3
- …she worked for RFA!
- Good.
- She said the Uyghurs were treated well at Guantanamo!!!
M. Respinti, “‘Dozens of my In-Laws Vanished’. The Other 9/11 of Rushan Abbas”, Bitter Winter, 1 August 2019. ↩︎
↩︎She also has extensive experience working with U.S. government agencies, including Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of State, Department of Justice, and various U.S. intelligence agencies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushan_Abbas#Guantanamo_Bay ↩︎