Sex Male
Birth date 1966-03-04
Birth place Atux, Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Resident place Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Education B.A. in Chinese Lierature, Xinjiang University (1987)
Profession Uyghur scholar, literary critic, former senior editor of Xinjiang Education Publishing House (retired due to illness in 2015, member of Chinese Writers Association)
Date of arrest 2016-10-06 (detention), 2016-12-12 (arrest)
Organ of arrest Urumqi Public Security Bureau, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
Cause of arrest Compiling and publishing the school textbooks which are recently accused of separatism by Chinese authorities, particularly in an official propaganda documentary, The Plot Inside the Textbooks.
Charge In citing subversion of state power (verdict), suspicion of inciting secession of the country (arrest)
Date of sentence 2018-01-03
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
Sentence 15 years imprisonment
Defender Unknown
Place of jail Unknown
Situation in jail Unknown
Date of release 2031-10-07 (?)
Family contact
Donation to
Case adopted by Uyghur PEN, ICPC
Current Status Investigation
References
https://apnews.com/4f5f57213e3546ab9bd1be01dfb510d3
https://www.voanews.com/extremism-watch/families-uighurs-abroad-increasingly-targeted-china
https://www.ft.com/content/48508182-d426-11e9-8367-807ebd53ab77
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/intellectuals-jailed-10102018172605.html
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/china-ban-on-some-textbooks-seen-as-aimed-at-uyghur-culture/5059165.html
https://share.america.gov/china-targets-intellectuals-to-eradicate-uighur-culture/