Sex Male
Birth date 1977-09-21
Birth place Karamay City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Resident place Beijing
Education Graduate from Communication University of China (2001)
Profession Broadcaster, reporter, editor of Uyghur Department of China National Radio; webmaster of salkin.cn (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2009-09
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Cause of arrest Having an interview with foreign reporters after Shaoguan Incident on 26 June, 2009; translated from Chinese into Uygur the articles found on websites in which the spokesman of the World Uighur Congress called on demonstrations and published in website salkin.cn in China
Charge Splitting the country, leaking state secrets and organizing illegal demonstrations
Date of sentence 2010-04-01
Organ of sentence Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Sentence Life imprisonment
Defender unknown
Place of jail unknown
Situation in jail unknown
Date of release no
Family contact unknown
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case
References
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/journalist-12212010162519.html
https://cpj.org/data/people/memetjan-abdulla/
https://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/memetjan-abdulla/
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/world/asia/25uighur.html