Sex Male
Birth date 1969-01
Birth place Atush, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Resident place Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Education B.A. in Uyghur Language at Department of Minority Languages and Literature, Beijing Central University for Nationalities (1989), PhD in Chinese Philology, Central University for Nationalities (2011)
Profession Uyghur poet and novelist, researcher át People’s Arts Center of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (member of Xinjiang Writers Association, and honorary member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2018-01-30
Organ of arrest Unknown
Cause of arrest Unknown
Charge Unknown
Date of sentence Not yet
Organ of sentence Not yet
Sentence Not yet
Defender
Place of jail One of Vocational Education and Training Centers, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Situation in jail Unknown
Date of release Not yet
Family contact
Donation to
Case adopted by Uyghur PEN, ICPC
Current Status Investigation
References
http://uyghurvictims.org/index.php?title=Perhat_Tursun
https://medium.com/fairbank-center/uyghur-poetry-in-translation-perhat-tursuns-elegy-902a58b7a0aa
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/01/china-xinjiang-islam-salman-rushdie-uighur/