Sex Male
Birth date 1969-10-25
Birth place Artux City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Resident place Chaoyang District, Beijing City
Education M. Sc. in Economics, Central Nationalities University (now, the Minzu University of China), Beijing
Profession Associate Professor of economics at Minzu University of China, Founder and Webmaster of a website Uyghur Online (member of Uyghur PEN Center, honorary member of PEN America, Danish PEN, ICPC and Japanese PEN)
Date of arrest 2009-07-08 (residential surveillance); 2014-01-15 (detained), 2014-02-20 (arrested) (2nd )
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Bejing City; Public Security Bureau of Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Cause of arrest Criticizing on the Uyghur Online website that the Chinese government’s policies toward Uyghurs in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and Xinjiang Governor Nur Bekri cited in a speech as a catalyst for the violence in Urumqi on 5 July, 2009; prosecuted for colluding with the “East Turkestan” forces outside, advocating “independence of Xinjiang” in Internet, and inciting “overthrow the Government” in the university class (2nd )
Charge Suspicion of inciting violence and spreading rumors (1st); splittism (2nd)
Date of sentence 2014-09-17/18 (2nd, hearing), 2014-09-23 (verdict), 2014-11-21 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Urumqi City (2nd), High People’s Court of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (appeal)
Sentence Life imprisonment (2nd)
Defender Lawyer LIU Xiaoyuan (2nd)
Place of jail Detention Center of Public Security Bureau of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Usu Prison, 833006 Usu City, Tacheng Prefecture, Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (now)
Situation in jail suffuring from mistreatment and torture
Date of release 2009-08-23; life sentence (2nd)
Family contact Guzaili Nu’er(wife), Tel: +86-10-68938143
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilham_Tohti
http://chinachange.org/ilham-tohti/
http://time.com/3062430/china-xinjiang-uighur-ilham-tohti-charged-separatism/
http://www.pen.org/defending-writers/ilham-tohti
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alim-a-seytoff/why-beijing-fears-uyghur-_b_5549499.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/world/asia/china-ilham-tohti-uighurs-xinjiang.html?_r=0