Muhter Mamut Muhemmedi was arrested in in 2017, there is no obvious reason of his detention, about his sentence term there are different rumors, it is hard to make sure how long he got sentenced.
Muhter Mamut Mehemmedi was born in Qarghiliq county, Kashgar in April 1967. He graduated from the Uyghur Autonomous Regional party school in 1994, majored in Chinese language translation. He worked for Kashagr culture department in 1990s.
Muhter Mamut Muhemmedi has published nearly 150 essays, papers and articles in various genres in different Uyghur-Chinese newspapers in Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region.
In 1996, he was rated as one of the ten outstanding authors by the Xinjiang Tezkirechiliki, a prominent journal in Uyghur focused on Uyghur history and histography. He organized a conference about Tejelli works in 2005, and in 2007, he advocated to protect Tejelli’s Tomb as a cultural heritage in Qarghiliq which were in danger.
He published twenty books, and he prepared some other books for publication. He was the member of Xinjiang Writers Association, and board member of Uyghur Muqam Association.
The books were compiled and written by him are as follows:
- “Famous Uyghur traditional Doctors“ (with Sidiq Rehmet) were published by the Kashgar Uyghur Publishing House – 喀什噶尔维吾尔出版社 in 1997.
- “Shiraq“ (with Muhemmettursun Yusup) was published in 1999 by National Publishing House – 民族出版社（北京）.
- “Tejelli’s Poems“ was published in 2000 by National Publishing House – 民族出版社（北京）.
- “Stories about De De Qorqut“ (Father Qorqut) was published by Xinjiang People’s Publishing House – 新疆人民出版社.
- “Booklets for disabilities” – “1”, was published by Kashgar Uyghur Publishing House – 喀什噶尔维吾尔出版社 in 2004.
- “Tiniqlardin Termiler” (pieces from breaths) was published in November 2011 by Xinjiang Fine Arts and Photography Publishing House – 新疆美术摄影出版社.
- “Eagle of Ilichi” selected short novels were published in November 2011 by Xinjiang Fine Arts and Photography Publishing House – 新疆美术摄影出版社.
- “Turdi Ahun: The Master of Muqam” a collection of articles, was published in November 2011 by Xinjiang Youth Publishing House – 新疆青少年出版社.
- “Uyghur Scholar Tejelli” a collection of articles, was published in November 2011 by Xinjiang Fine Arts and Photography Publishing House – 新疆美术摄影出版社.
