71. Nurmuhemmet YASIN
Pen name Nurmemet YASIN
Sex Male
Birth date 1974-03-06
Birth place Bachu County (Maralbeshi), Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Resident place Bachu County (Maralbeshi), Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Education Graduate from a secondary school
Profession Freelance writer and poet (Honorary member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2004-11-29 (detained)
Organ of arrest National Security Bureau of Kashgar Prefectur, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Cause of arrest Published a short story “The Wild Pigeon” in the Kashgar Literature Journal, N0.5, 2004
Charge Inciting separatism
Date of sentence 2005-02-02
Organ of sentence People’s Court of Bachu Country; People’s Intermediate Court of Kashgar Prefecture (appeal),
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Sentence 10 Years imprisonment and ? Years deprivation of political rights
Defender No lawyer
Place of jail Urumqi No.1 Prison, Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Situation in jail not allowed for family visit
Date of release 2014-11-28
Family contact
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Released on expiry of the sentence on 2014-11-28 (Case therefore closed)
References http://www.cecc.gov/pages/virtualAcad/index.phpd?showsingle=6759
http://www.uyghurcanadian.org/politicalprisonner.html
http://www.rfa.org/english/uyghur/2005/06/27/wild_pigeon/
http://www.rfa.org/english/uyghur/2005/06/27/wild_pigeon2/
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/xinwen/2005/06/29/china_xinjiang/ (in Chinese)
http://www.uyghurcongress.org/cn/news.asp?ItemID=-1176451081 (in Chinese)