95. ILHAM TOHTI

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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