110. MEMETJAN ABDULLA

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MEMETJAN ABDULLAPen name               

 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