30. Tohti TUNYAZ
Pen name MUZART
Sex Male
Birth date 1959-10-01
Birth place BayCounty, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Resident place Tokyo, Japan
Education B.A. in History at the Central Institute of Nationalities, Beijing, in 1984
Ph. D student at Tokyo University, Japan
Profession Ph. D student, Ethnic Uyghur historian and writer (Honorary member of ICPC, English,
Perth, Catalan, Japan, American, Liechenstein and Canadian PEN centers)
Date of arrest 1998-02-06
Organ of arrest National Security Bureau of Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Cause of arrest Collecting sensitive materials on ethnic relations, and publishing articles on
ethnic
Charge Inciting national disunity, and stealing state secrets for foreign persons (later
Date of sentence 1999-03-10, 2000-02-15 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court, Xinjiang High People’s Court (appeal)
Sentence 11 Years imprisonment and 2 Years deprivation of political rights
Defender Unknown
Place of jail Xinjiang No.3 Prison, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Situation in jail Unknown
Date of release 2009-2-10
Family contact in Japan
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC, English, Perth, Catalan, Japan, American, Liechenstein and Canadian PEN
Current Status Release on expiry of the sentence on 2009-02-10
(Case therefore closed)
References http://www.pencanada.ca/committ/HM/TohtiTunyaz.htm
http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/ea/mgck/archive03/02hrprc5.htm (Chinese)