Name Hailaiti NIYAZI (aka Hairat or Gheyret Niyaz)
Pen name Hailaite
Sex Male
Birth date 1959-06-14
Birth place Emin (Dörbiljin) County, Tacheng Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Resident place Tianshan District, Urumchi City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Education University graduate
Profession Freelance journalist, former editor and manager of Uighur Online (uighurbiz.net), and former Reporter and columnist of Xinjiang Economic Daily (Honorary Member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2009-10-01 (detained)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Urumchi City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Cause of arrest Being interviewed many times by a number of overseas media and criticizing the responsibility of Wang Lequan, the Secretary of the Communist Party in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region after the violence in Urumchi on July 5, 2009
Charge Endangering national security
Date of sentence 2010-07-23
Organ of sentence Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Sentence 15 years imprisonment and ? years deprivation of political rights
Defender unknown
Place of jail Changji Prison, Changji City 831105, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Situation in jail unknown
Date of release 2024-09-30 (?)
Family contact
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case
References
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091030/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_uighur_unrest
http://cpj.org/2009/10/chinese-authorities-detain-uighur-web-site-manager.php
http://chrdnet.org/2010/07/23/chrd-protests-harsh-and-unjust-sentence-for-uyghur-journalist-hailaite-niyazi/
https://www.nchrd.org/2011/02/prisoner-of-conscience-hailaite-niyazi/
https://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/gheyret-niyaz/