Yalqun Rozi (يالقۇن روزى, 亚力坤·肉孜, 牙里坤·肉孜) was one of the primary targets during the Chinese government’s war against the Uyghurs, which began in May 2014. He was arrested on October 6th, 2016, due to his main “crime” of publishing Uyghur textbooks required by the Department of Education.
Yalqun Rozi was born on March 4, 1966, in the city of Atush. He attended primary and junior high school in Aghu village from 1973 to 1980, and then studied at the No.1 high school in Qizilsu Prefecture from 1980 to 1982.
In 1987, he enrolled in the Faculty of Literature at Xinjiang University, and after graduation, Xinjiang People’s Radio Station hired him to work as a reporter. In January 1991, he started working as an editor in the Uyghur editorial department of Xinjiang Education Newspaper.
From 2005 onwards, Yalqun Rozi worked in the curriculum department of Xinjiang Education Publishing House, where he compiled and edited Uyghur language and literature textbooks. In October 2016, he was abducted, and in 2018, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Yalqun Rozi has published several books, including “Golden Koldurma in Teklimakan,” “Mr. Memtili” (with Merzakhmet Seyit), “Awakening Ancestor’s Spirit” (Collection of Masterpieces of Uyghur Writers), “Why am I writing commentary” and “Secret of Clay Castle.” He translated some books into Uyghur, for example “Philosophy In Life“. He has also written numerous articles and reviews, which have been published in various magazines and newspapers.
Under Yalqun Rozi’s editorship, a series of Uyghur language and literature textbooks were published since 2002 as a state-supported project. Hundreds of Uyghur writers, painters, designers, and illustrators contributed to the project. Since the Chinese government built massive concentration camps and began to arbitrarily detain Uyghurs in East Turkistan, Uyghur intellectuals have been taken to concentration camps for no reason. Yalqun Rozi is one of the innocent Uyghur scholars who did not commit any crime.
Some of his books on the internet:
Some of the textbooks that used in schools which the result of the state-supported project and he is the editor in charge:
Some of the news about him on the internet:
Long prison sentence for Yalqun Rozi
China hands death sentences to Uyghur former officials
Correction: China-Xinjiang-Banished Textbooks story
Correction: China-Xinjiang-Banished Textbooks story
Uyghur Editors’ Family Members Charge Chinese Documentary Misrepresents Them
Uyghur educators face prison, death in China
China targets intellectuals in bid to eradicate Uyghur culture
China’s Ban on Some Textbooks Seen as Aimed at Uyghur Culture
The Olympic Games Cannot Hide the Persecution of the Uyghurs
For Uyghurs seeking justice, UN panel confirms loved ones’ rights have been violated
A Uyghur Author and Translator Were Detained. Now, Their Novel Speaks For Them
Long prison sentence for book-loving Uyghur who tried to preserve history and culture for kids
For ’08 Uyghur torchbearer, China’s flame has gone dark
For Uyghur Torchbearer, China’s Olympic Flame Has Gone Dark
Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China’s war on Uighur culture
China State TV Documentary Inspires Sympathy For Jailed Uyghur Poet
This Uyghur man carried the Olympic flame in 2008. Now he wants a boycott of the Winter Games
In China’s Crackdown on Muslims, Children Have Not Been Spared
Corrective ‘re-education’ as (cultural) genocide
A content analysis of the Uyghur primary school textbook Til Ädäbiyat
CFU Marks 7th Anniversary of Yalqun Rozi’s Unjust Imprisonment by CCP
The Sparkling of the Harvard Spirit
Ujgurski poeta wydawał baśnie i ludowe podania. Chiny skazały go na 10 lat obozu (Polish)
Uygur Hareketi tutukluluğunun 7. yılında Uygur edebiyatçı Yalqun Rozi için özgürlük istedi (Turkish)
Toplama kampına atılan Uygur akademisyen Yalkun Rozi için İstanbul’da farkındalık etkinliği (Turkish)
Some voiced articles and books on YouTube
Some of his articles on the internet:
A new educational movement in Ili, alternative link, alternative link
Yalqun Rozi Essay Collection (Volume 1), alternative link, alternative link
What kind of fathers do we need, alternative link, alternative link
The secret of a piece of brick
What kind of mothers are great
Why do writers regret, alternative link
