{"id":3515,"date":"2019-10-25T00:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T04:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2020-02-01T08:14:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T13:14:05","slug":"95-iliham-tohti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/95-iliham-tohti","title":{"rendered":"95. ILHAM TOHTI"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sex<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Male<\/p>\n

Birth date<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1969-10-25<\/p>\n

Birth place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Artux City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region<\/p>\n

Resident place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chaoyang District, Beijing City<\/p>\n

Education<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 M. Sc. in Economics, Central Nationalities University (now, the Minzu University of China), Beijing<\/p>\n

Profession<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Associate Professor of economics at Minzu University of China, Founder and Webmaster of \u00a0a website Uyghur Online (member of Uyghur PEN Center, honorary member of\u00a0PEN America, Danish PEN, ICPC and Japanese PEN)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Date of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2009-07-08 (residential surveillance); 2014-01-15 (detained), 2014-02-20 (arrested) (2nd<\/sup> )<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Organ of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Public Security Bureau of Bejing City; Public Security Bureau of Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region<\/p>\n

Cause of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Criticizing on the<\/em> Uyghur Online<\/em> 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<\/sup> )<\/p>\n

Charge<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Suspicion of inciting violence and spreading rumors (1st); splittism\u00a0(2nd)<\/p>\n

Date of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2014-09-17\/18 (2nd, hearing), 2014-09-23 (verdict), 2014-11-21 (appeal)<\/p>\n

Organ of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Intermediate People\u2019s Court of Urumqi City (2nd), High People\u2019s Court of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (appeal)<\/p>\n

Sentence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Life imprisonment (2nd)<\/p>\n

Defender<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lawyer LIU Xiaoyuan (2nd)<\/p>\n

Place of jail\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>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)<\/p>\n

Situation in jail\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>suffuring from mistreatment and torture<\/p>\n

Date of release<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2009-08-23; life sentence (2nd)<\/p>\n

Family contact<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Guzaili Nu’er(wife), Tel: +86-10-68938143<\/p>\n

Donation to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Case adopted by<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ICPC<\/p>\n

Current Status<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Main case<\/p>\n

\u00a0References<\/em><\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ilham_Tohti<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/chinachange.org\/ilham-tohti\/<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/time.com\/3062430\/china-xinjiang-uighur-ilham-tohti-charged-separatism\/<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.pen.org\/defending-writers\/ilham-tohti<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/alim-a-seytoff\/why-beijing-fears-uyghur-_b_5549499.html<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/31\/world\/asia\/china-ilham-tohti-uighurs-xinjiang.html?_r=0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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