Nobel Peace Prize should not be used as political tool

In a move that interferes in China's internal affairs, US lawmakers from the Congressional-Executive Commission on China nominated Ilham Tohti, a jailed Uygur teacher, for the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday.

Tohti, a former teacher at Beijing's Minzu University of China, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 for promoting separatism. But in the letter of nomination sent to the president of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, and its other members, he was eulogized as a scholar that "embodies the peaceful struggle for peace and human rights in China", and thus there is "no one more deserving of the committee's recognition in 2019" than him.

By nominating someone who has committed serious crimes by undermining peace and stability in China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the US lawmakers are trying to humiliate China.