{"id":4079,"date":"2014-12-12T20:14:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T01:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=4079"},"modified":"2014-12-12T20:14:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T01:14:35","slug":"chinese-court-frees-uyghur-linguist-following-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/chinese-court-frees-uyghur-linguist-following-appeal","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Court Frees Uyghur Linguist Following Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2014-12-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/12\/60ac535d-263f-4696-98ae-69c6f19b00c8.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/12\/60ac535d-263f-4696-98ae-69c6f19b00c8-300x197.jpeg\" alt=\"60ac535d-263f-4696-98ae-69c6f19b00c8\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/12\/60ac535d-263f-4696-98ae-69c6f19b00c8-300x197.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/12\/60ac535d-263f-4696-98ae-69c6f19b00c8.jpeg 622w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Abduweli Ayup and his daughter in a file photo.<br \/>\nPhoto courtesy of Ayup&#8217;s family<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities have freed a U.S.-educated Uyghur linguist who sought<!--more--> to set up schools to promote the ethnic minority language in the Xinjiang region after more than a year in prison, according to a close relative.<\/p>\n<p>Abduweli Ayup was ordered jailed 18 months and fined 80,000 yuan (U.S. $13,000) for \u201cillegal fundraising\u201d in August by the Tengritagh (in Chinese, Tianshan) district court in Xinjiang\u2019s capital Urumqi after being detained for a year.<\/p>\n<p>He was released on Nov. 27 after his partners in an education venture, Muhemmet Sidik and Dilyar Obul, who were convicted in the same trial, appealed their verdict, the relative said, speaking to RFA\u2019s Uyghur Service on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/linguist-12112014153845.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014-12-11 Abduweli Ayup and his daughte &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/chinese-court-frees-uyghur-linguist-following-appeal\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,186,45],"tags":[122,484,288],"views":3969,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4081,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions\/4081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}