The list of detained & imprisoned in government body in China, comprising ethnic Uyghurs and other minorities, is shown below:
| Entry | Victim’s Name | Chinese name | ID no. | About the Testifier | Relation | About the Victim | Assumed Location | When Detention Took Place | Detention Reason | Victim’s Status | How Testifier Learned of Status | Additional Info | About the Testifier (Translated/Edited) | Relation (Translated/Edited) | About the Victim (Translated/Edited) | Assumed Location (Translated/Edited) | When Detention Took Place (Translated/Edited) | Detention Reason (Translated/Edited) | Victim’s Status (Translated/Edited) | How Testifier Learned of Status (Translated/Edited) | Additional Info (Translated/Edited) | Prison Term (Years) | Age | Gender | Ethnicity | Location | Detention type | Detention time | Detention reason | Official detention reason (1) | Official detention reason (2) | Official detention reason (3) | Health status | Profession |
| 332 | Sattar Sawut | 沙塔尔·沙吾提 | 652123194811????O? | Testimony 1|2: Anonymous letter, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. Testimony 3: Local government employee, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. Testimony 4: Local police, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. Testimony 5: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party. Testimony 6: Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the highest national level agency responsible for both prosecution and investigation in the People’s Republic of China. Testimony 7: Anonymous, as reported by Ilshat Hassan. (relation unclear) |
Satar Sawut former director of the Xinjiang Education Supervision Bureau |
— | Early 2017 | According to one RFA source : “a message posted on a Chinese website in February 2017 said he was undergoing investigation for a serious breach of the party discipline (Testimony 5). The post did not say what Sawut was accused of doing”. Another source mentions a documentary shown in a political study meeting which depicted the case of Satar Awut who among others, is criticized “for attempting to split the country”. Another media (BitterWinter) mentions charges of ethnic separatism. [Testimony 6: The Supreme Procuratorate announcement from May 31, 2017 says 涉嫌受贿 (suspected bribery).] |
Testimony 1-4: Received the death penalty, suspended for two years. [Testimony 7: A Tweet from Ilshat Kokbore stated that he had allegedly died in detention, citing a “reliable source”, but this has not been confirmed.] |
Testimony 1-4: from government-provided films and propaganda materials. Testimony 5-6: these are official government bodies. Testimony 7: not stated. |
Coverage: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/intellectuals-jailed-10102018172605.html (Testimony 1-4) https://asialyst.com/fr/2018/10/19/chine-elite-ouighoure-decapitee-xinjiang/ https://bitterwinter.org/ethnic-uyghur-officials-persecuted/ Info in uyghur https://www.ft.com/content/48508182-d426-11e9-8367-807ebd53ab77 His Baidu Baike His Chinese Wikipedia |
Testimony 1|2: Anonymous letter, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. Testimony 3: Local government employee, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. Testimony 4: Local police, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. Testimony 5: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party. Testimony 6: Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the highest national level agency responsible for both prosecution and investigation in the People’s Republic of China. Testimony 7: Anonymous, as reported by Ilshat Hassan. (relation unclear) |
Sattar Sawut was the former director of the Xinjiang Education Department (新疆教育厅厅长). | — | On February 9, 2017, there was a formal announcement from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection that the victim, among others, was being investigated for a “serious breach of (Party) discipline”. On May 31, 2017, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate relayed an announcement by the procuratorate in Xinjiang that the victim was now being prosecuted, with legal coercive measures taken, on suspicion of accepting bribes. In 2018, Radio Free Asia received reports of a political-education film, shown to cadres and others in Xinjiang, that featured Sawut and many other prominent figures (“The Plot Inside the Textbooks”). According to multiple sources who had seen the film, Sawut was said to have been sentenced to death with a 2-year reprieve, on what were essentially charges of separatism. On March 13, 2019, activist Ilshat Hassan announced that he had heard from a “reliable source” that Sawut had died in detention (this has not been confirmed, however). |
According to those who saw the political film he was featured in, the main accusation against him was that of separatism. Officially, his initial detention was on suspicion of “violating Party discipline”, with the subsequent prosecution on suspicion of “accepting bribes”. |
Presumably still in detention, if alive. | The people that Radio Free Asia spoke to appear to have gotten their information from the political film featuring Sawut, as this was mandatory viewing for many government workers and others across the region. The announcements regarding his investigation and prosecution come from official government bodies. It is not clear how the “reliable sources” cited by Hassan obtained the information. |
His case has been covered in: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/intellectuals-jailed-10102018172605.html https://asialyst.com/fr/2018/10/19/chine-elite-ouighoure-decapitee-xinjiang/ https://bitterwinter.org/ethnic-uyghur-officials-persecuted/ https://www.ft.com/content/48508182-d426-11e9-8367-807ebd53ab77 His Baidu Baike His Chinese Wikipedia Additional info (in Uyghur) |
55+ | M | Uyghur | — | unclear (hard) | Jan. 2017 – Mar. 2017 | separatism | breach of Party discipline | separatism | taking bribes | critical | government | |||
| 368 | Habibe Memet | 65230119570408??E? | Testimony 1: My name is Rejep.Repqet. I am from Sanji. Now I live in NL Testimony 2: Amine. |
Testimony 1: Mother Testimony 2: Mother-in-law |
Testimony 1: My mother Habibe. Memet was born on 8-4-1957 in Sanji. She is a retired teacher. She worked as a teacher 30 years for government. Additional info from Testimony 2: She is from Changji Hui autonomous prefecture. In the summer of 2015, she came to Malaysia to get a Turkish visa, then returned to China two weeks later. She was questioned by the police at Guangzhou airport after landing. |
Testimony 1: After retiring she lived in Urumqi | Testimony 1: 1-2018 Testimony 2: In January 2018, she was taken away to a re-education camp, where she had a heart-attack. |
— | Testimony 2: She is ill. | Testimony 1: One of the friends of my mother told her child about my mother Testimony 2: Through Habibe’s friend in Urumqi |
She travelled to Turkey in 2015 with one of her friends. That friend was detained to Concentration camps since two years. | 55+ | F | Uyghur | Urumqi | concentration camp | Jan. 2018 – Mar. 2018 | — | — | — | — | has problems | government | |||||||||||
| 407 | Risalat Yasin | 650203196802270749 | Ramile, Student | Family member | Reshalati Yasheng, born 27-10-1968 [correction by testifier: 27-02-1968], in Karamay, Passport No. E00178792 She is from Karamay city, where she worked in environment agency, and currently retired. She has no criminal record. Her ethnic identity is Uyghur. |
Internment camp, possibly Karamay [supplement on May 25, 2019: I collected information through my relatives that first she was first placed in BaiJianTan district in Karamay… I also forgot to mention that she has been transferred to a facility in Karamay city now (probably this one with GPS coordinate: 45.533700, 84.796670)] |
9.12.2017 [supplement on May 25, 2019: She has been detained since 07.12.2017, and she has been released temporarily for an overnight stay at home ( 24.05.2019).] |
Visiting relatives abroad [supplement on May 25, 2019: having relatives abroad and travelling abroad] |
unknown [supplement on May 25, 2019: I believe the facility in BaiJianTan is a relatively strict facility where detainees are under harsh conditions, where my mother lost 20kg, and has been denied her diabetes medication (insulin)… They have hospital and supermarket in the camp located in Karamay city, but still she has no access for her insulin, the given reason for that is she is no longer diabetic.] |
From other relatives | — | 35-55 | F | Uyghur | Karamay | unclear (hard) | Oct. 2017 – Dec. 2017 | related to going abroad | — | — | — | has problems | government | |||||||||||
| 417 | Maynur Mahmut | 6540??195???????E? | Azat Mahmut Kashgari. Has been living in the United States for 20 years. | Azat Mahmut’s older sister. | Maynur Mahmut, 65 years old, a retired government employee, lives in Ghulja (detailed address in the video testimony). She visited Saudi Arabia for Haj. She, her son, her daughter-in-law, her brother-in-law were sent to concentration camp. | Probably Ghulja (Ili) | Unclear | She visited Saudi Arabia for Haj | Concentration camp | Probably through other relatives | — | 55+ | F | Uyghur | Ili | concentration camp | — | related to going abroad | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 447 | Gulmire Imin | 古丽米拉·依明 | 65290119780124??E? | Testimony 1|3: Anonymous, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (trial attendee) Testimony 2: Local government employee, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (colleague) Testimony 4: Behtiyar Omer, as reported by Committee to Protect Journalists. (husband) Testimony 5: Behtiyar Omer, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (husband) Testimony 6: Letter from the Chinese government, providing an official reply regarding a certain query or issue. Testimony 7: China Central Television, the predominant state-owned television network in Mainland China. |
Gulmire Imin. Born in 1978. Graduated in 2000 from the Chinese-Uighur translation department of Xinjiang University, and started to work for a subdistrict committee the same year (in Aksu). Contributed poetry and short stories to the cultural Uighur-language website Salkin: she was invited to moderate the site in late spring 2009. Authorities accused Imin of being an organizer of demonstrations on July 5, 2009, and of using the Uighur-language website to distribute information about the event (according to RFA, more than 100 forum moderators who worked with Salkin were arrested over July 5). Imin had been critical of the government in her online writing, according to readers talking to RFA. The website was shut down after the riots and its contents were deleted. Prior to her sentencing, Imin was forced to make false statements on state television about her actions and the actions of her husband, who was living in Norway. She alleges she was tortured and forced to sign documents while in detention, and couldn’t meet with her lawyer before the trial. She was awarded the Hellman/Hammett prize for her efforts to promote freedom of expression by Human Rights Watch in 2012. | Xinjiang Women’s Prison, Urumchi (Shuimogou) | Arrested in July 14, 2009. Sentenced to life in prison on April 1, 2010, after being tried along with five others. | Splittism, leaking state secrets and organizing an illegal demonstration (Articles 103, 111, and 296 of China’s Criminal Law) constituted the charges against her during her closed trial. | In prison. The current status of her health is unknown. | Reports : – https://uhrp.org/political-prisoners-2014/gulmire-imin – http://www.refworld.org/docid/586cb8e013.html – https://cpj.org/data/people/gulmire-imin/index.php (Testimony 4) – https://www.uscirf.gov/gulmira-imin – https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/sentence-08082010190802.html (Testimony 1-3) – http://www.wan-ifra.org/articles/2014/04/24/gulmire-imin-china-jailed-since-july-2009 – http://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/?p=9898 – http://www.observatori.org/paises/pais_81/documentos/asa170272010en.pdf – https://www.rfa.org/uyghur/xewerler/tepsili_xewer/gulmire-imin-07102012133206.html (Testimony 5) |
Mentioned in the CECC report | Testimony 1|3: Anonymous, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (trial attendee) Testimony 2: Local government employee, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (colleague) Testimony 4: Behtiyar Omer, as reported by Committee to Protect Journalists. (husband) Testimony 5: Behtiyar Omer, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (husband) Testimony 6: Letter from the Chinese government, providing an official reply regarding a certain query or issue. Testimony 7: China Central Television, the predominant state-owned television network in Mainland China. |
Gulmire Imin was a writer, website moderator, and government worker, originally from Aksu City. In 2000, she graduated from the Chinese-Uyghur translation department of Xinjiang University and started to work for a subdistrict committee in Aksu that the same year (in Aksu). She contributed poetry and short stories to the cultural Uyghur-language website “Salkin”, which she was invited to moderate in late spring 2009. Following her detention, she was awarded the Hellman/Hammett prize for her efforts to promote freedom of expression by Human Rights Watch in 2012. |
The Xinjiang Women’s Prison. | Arrested on July 14, 2009. Sentenced to life in prison on April 1, 2010, after being tried along with five others. | Authorities accused Imin of being an organizer of the demonstrations on July 5, 2009, and of using the Uyghur-language website to distribute information about the event (according to Radio Free Asia, more than 100 forum moderators who worked with Salkin were arrested because of July 5). In an offical reply regarding Imin’s case, the authorities said that she had taken orders from the World Uyghur Congress to distribute information about the Shaoguan incident. According to readers who talked to RFA, Imin had been critical of the government in her online writing. The website was shut down after the riots and its contents were deleted. “Splittism, leaking state secrets, and organizing an illegal demonstration” (Articles 103, 111, and 296 of China’s Criminal Law) constituted the charges against her during her closed trial. |
Presumably still serving a life sentence. Current health status unclear. | Some of the testimonies come from people who attended the victim’s trial and are therefore eyewitnesses. One corroboration of the victim’s life sentence comes from a government employee who was a colleague of the victim and would presumably have relatively direct knowledge of her situation. It is not completely clear how her husband got news of her situation. The CCTV report about the victim and the official letter reply to the United Nations are essentially official government sources. |
Prior to her sentencing, Imin was forced to make false statements on state television about her actions and the actions of her husband, who was living in Norway. She alleges she was tortured and forced to sign documents while in detention, and couldn’t meet with her lawyer before the trial. Various publicly available reports mentioning the victim’s case: – https://uhrp.org/political-prisoners-2014/gulmire-imin – http://www.refworld.org/docid/586cb8e013.html – https://cpj.org/data/people/gulmire-imin/index.php – https://www.uscirf.gov/gulmira-imin – https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/sentence-08082010190802.html – http://www.wan-ifra.org/articles/2014/04/24/gulmire-imin-china-jailed-since-july-2009 – http://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/?p=9898 – http://www.observatori.org/paises/pais_81/documentos/asa170272010en.pdf – https://www.rfa.org/uyghur/xewerler/tepsili_xewer/gulmire-imin-07102012133206.html – https://www.cecc.gov/sites/chinacommission.house.gov/files/documents/CECC%20Pris%20List_20181011_1424.pdf |
100 | 35-55 | F | Uyghur | Urumqi | sentenced | before 2017 | — | separatism | revealing “state secrets” | disturbing public order | — | government | ||
| 724 | Patigul Dawut | 65280119????????E? | CECC report | No relation. | Patigul Dawut, a Communist Party member living in Beshawat village, Awat township, Korla. | Korla city, Bayangol Mongol autonomous prefecture | October 9, 2017 | Her detention reportedly came after workers in a carpet factory run by her family listened to Islamic religious sermons on their phones. Authorities alleged that Patigul Dawut had allowed them to listen to the sermons, and detained her and the workers. | Ordered to serve 6 months in the re-education camp. Unclear if released yet. | Patigul Dawut’s husband told RFA that she had multiple medical conditions and was likely not receiving required medication while in detention, and that authorities prevented him from visiting her. |
— | — | F | Uyghur | Bayingolin | — | Oct. 2017 – Dec. 2017 | — | related to religion | — | — | has problems | government | |||||||||||
| 1672 | Goherhan Tomur | 652101196???????E? | Testimony 1: Halmurat Uyghur, as reported by Le Temps. (son) Testimony 2: Halmurat Uyghur, as reported by Hong Kong Free Press. (son) Testimony 3: Halmurat Uyghur, a Finland-based activist, originally from Turpan but now a citizen of Finland. (son) |
name: Göherhan / Guihuahan Tiermuer / 桂花汗 gender: female ethnicity: Uyghur age: 56 (in 2017) passport no: G52120362 occupation: government official, used to work for Turpan Daily newspaper, retired health status: had a tumor removed and was recovering from chemotherapy before she was detained, current health status unknown Mother of Murat Harri Uyghur. When Göherhan did not call her son on his birthday, her son tried to reach her, but her mobile phone was turned off. Murat learned from his father that his mother had been taken to a school to learn Chinese, even though she speaks perfect Chinese. She was detained in a “re-education” camp from April 2017 to 24 Decemeber 2018 in Turpan (Qichuanhu town), probably “Re-education” Camp No. 36. |
probably in Turpan under house arrest | Taken to camp in April 2017. Released on December 24, 2018. | unknown | previously in “re-education” camp, released, now probably under house arrest | https://www.letemps.ch/monde/chine-incarcere-ouigours-masse (Testimony 1) (published 28 MAY 2018) https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/09/02/information-black-hole-exiled-muslim-uighurs-fear-loved-ones-back-home-china-tightens-grip-xinjiang/ (Testimony 2) (published 2 SEPT 2018) twitter: @HalmuratU |
UHRP report | Testimony 1: Halmurat Uyghur, as reported by Le Temps. (son) Testimony 2: Halmurat Uyghur, as reported by Hong Kong Free Press. (son) Testimony 3: Halmurat Uyghur, a Finland-based activist, originally from Turpan but now a citizen of Finland. (son) |
Goherhan Tomur, 56 (as of 2017), is a retired government official who used to work for the “Turpan Daily” newspaper. She is fluent in Mandarin. Chinese passport: G52120362. |
At her home in Turpan’s Qiquanhu Municipality (七泉湖镇). | She was taken to camp (probably the No. 36 camp) in April 2017. She was released to town arrest on December 24, 2018. | — | Now under “town arrest”, where her movements are restricted, her passport remains confiscated, and she cannot use the internet. She previously had a tumor removed and was recovering from chemotherapy at the time of her arrest. |
Halmurat learned of his mother’s detention after she didn’t call him on his birthday, prompting him to try to call her (only to find that her phone was turned off). He later learned from his father that she had been taken to “study”. | Media coverage: https://www.letemps.ch/monde/chine-incarcere-ouigours-masse https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/09/02/information-black-hole-exiled-muslim-uighurs-fear-loved-ones-back-home-china-tightens-grip-xinjiang/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/world/asia/uighurs-china-internment-camps.html https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/18/detainees-are-trickling-out-of-xinjiangs-camps/ The victim is also mentioned in an UHRP report |
55+ | F | Uyghur | Turpan | house/town arrest | Apr. 2017 – June 2017 | — | — | — | — | has problems | government | ||||
| 1694 | Enwer Niyaz | 艾尼瓦·尼亚孜 | 652123196209062019 | Testimony 1*|2|3|4|5|6|11: Ezher Enwer, a quality assurance and regulatory affairs manager now living in Belgium. (son) Testimony 7: Abduweli Ayup, a language activist, linguist, and writer, originally from Kashgar but now residing in Norway. (relation unclear) Testimony 8: Ezher Enwer, as reported by La Libre. (son) Testimony 9: Ezher Enwer, as reported by New Statesman. (son) Testimony 10: UN Human Rights Council, the human rights body of the United Nations. |
Ainiwaer Niyazi, born in 06 September 1962. Chinese ID number: 652123196209062019, head of the middle school, party secretary of department of education in Tohsun county, Turpan prefacture, XUAR. [additional information from Abduweli Ayup’s list (Testimony 7): name in Mandarin is 艾尼瓦尔•尼牙孜, the middle/high school that he was principal of was the Toqsun County No. 1 High School] [additional from video testimony: has been a communist party member for more than 30 years] |
Tohsun (Tuokexun county, Turpan | since April 2018 [Testimony 6: On October 19, 2019, the testifier announced that he had been released, after a year and a half of detention.] |
NO REASON at all.. | As of February 13, 2019: in detention, awaiting sentencing. | via indirect contact | [his story has been featured in the Belgian press (Testimony 8) This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here.] |
Testimony 1*|2|3|4|5|6|11: Ezher Enwer, a quality assurance and regulatory affairs manager now living in Belgium. (son) Testimony 7: Abduweli Ayup, a language activist, linguist, and writer, originally from Kashgar but now residing in Norway. (relation unclear) Testimony 8: Ezher Enwer, as reported by La Libre. (son) Testimony 9: Ezher Enwer, as reported by New Statesman. (son) Testimony 10: UN Human Rights Council, the human rights body of the United Nations. |
Enwer Niyaz was the head of the Toqsun County No. 1 Middle School in Turpan. He taught Chinese and political thought. He was also the Party secretary for the Toqsun County Department of Education, and had been a Communist Party member for over 30 years. | Toqsun County, Turpan. | Detained in April 2018. On October 19, 2019, the testifier announced that he had been released, after a year and a half of detention. |
— | Apparently released. In a video testimony that followed, the testifier mentioned that he only talked to his father for a few minutes and that there were many things they weren’t able to talk about. | Through others [presumably in the region]. The testifier was able to video chat with the victim in mid-October 2019. |
Media coverage: https://www.lalibre.be/actu/international/un-belge-ouighour-a-la-chine-je-n-ai-plus-peur-maintenant-5c668525d8ad5878f0aceaa6 https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2019/08/chinas-missing-million-search-disappeared-uyghurs https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/communist-loyalty-shield-uighurs-chinese-detention-190930083432183.html The UNHRC had submitted this victim’s case to the Chinese authorities. This victim is also included in the list of prominent detained Uyghurs, available at here. A minor court case that he was involved in, with the verdict coming out after his alleged release |
55+ | M | Uyghur | Turpan | unclear (soft) | Apr. 2018 – June 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||
| 1720 | Buhelchem Memet | 65290119????????E? | Dilber Memet, Uyghur woman from Aqsu city. She left home in 2013, arrived to Malasia on March 6th, 2014. Came to Turkey on October 17th, 2014, now living in Kaysary Turkey since January 9th, 2015. | younger sister | Buxelchem Memet, Uyghur woman. She’s been working for the government for 24 years after graduating university. She was working in Jing county of Bortala. In August, 2015 she was arrested for contacting her sister in Turkey, sending money to her sister and keeping ‘illegal’ books. She was sentenced for 7 years and now in Urumqi woman’s prison. | Urumqi | August, 2015 | contacting her sister in Turkey, sending money to her sister in Turkey, keeping ‘illegal’ books | Presumably, serving her prison sentence. [There is also the likelihood that she is subjected to forced labor, given the factory that operates out of the prison.] |
through family | — | 7 | — | F | Uyghur | Urumqi | sentenced | before 2017 | contact with outside world | — | — | — | — | government | ||||||||||
| 1777 | Ehmet Eziz | 艾合买提·艾则孜 | 65292519650614??O? | Testimony 1|2|3|4: Kewser’ay Ehmet, originally from Aksu’s Toqsu County. She came to France with her mother and sister in order to pursue treatment for the latter, who suffers from autism, and stayed because of the events in Xinjiang. (daughter) | Ehmet Eziz, a government official, 53 years old (as of October 2018). [In a later video, she says that he’s 44 – however, this is a mistake, as the testifier herself later confirmed. She meant to say “fifty” instead of “forty”.] | He works in Toqsu County, Aksu Prefecture. This is also where the family is originally from, though the testifier mentions that they moved to Urumqi at one point so that her sister, who has special needs, could attend a specialized school there. | In October 2017, his passport was confiscated and police demanded that his family return to XJ. Testimony 4: The testifier says that the passport was confiscated in October 2016, with the victim asking for the family to come back to China. Contact was lost in March 2017. |
— | Documents confiscated. His daughter says that they’ve lost contact with him as well. | Testimony 1: from the victim himself. | — | Testimony 1|2|3|4: Kewser’ay Ehmet, originally from Aksu’s Toqsu County. She came to France with her mother and sister in order to pursue treatment for the latter, who suffers from autism, and stayed because of the events in Xinjiang. (daughter) | Ehmet Eziz is a government official in Toqsu County. Chinese passport: E06465708. |
He works in Toqsu County, Aksu Prefecture. This is also where the family is originally from, though the testifier mentions that they moved to Urumqi at one point so that her sister, who has special needs, could attend a specialized school there. | His passport was confiscated in October 2016, with police demanding that his family return to Xinjiang. The family lost contact with him in March 2017. | — | His documents have been confiscated and his daughter says that they’ve lost contact with him as well. | According to the testifier, it was the victim himself who told them [about the confiscation, presumably]. | — | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Aksu | no news for over a year | before 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||
| 1817 | Ablimit Imin | 65312919????????O? | Testimony 1|2|3: Muhemmed’eli Ablet, originally from Peyzawat County but now living in the United States. (nephew-in-law) Testimony 4: Muhemmed’eli Ablet, as reported by Gene A. Bunin. (nephew-in-law) |
Ablimit Imin, government worker, approximately 65 years old as of November 2018. Originally from No. 14 Village, Gulluq township (古勒鲁克乡), Payiziwat (Jiashi) county, Kashgar prefecture. | Peyziwat , kashgar | unknown | unknown | He is in a concentration camp in Peyziwat county of kashgar prefecture. Testimony 4: no news since November 2018 |
unclear | — | Testimony 1|2|3: Muhemmed’eli Ablet, originally from Peyzawat County but now living in the United States. (nephew-in-law) Testimony 4: Muhemmed’eli Ablet, as reported by Gene A. Bunin. (nephew-in-law) |
55+ | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | no news for over a year | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 2201 | Ibrahim Sattar | 65????19????????O? | H. | information publicly available | name: Ibrahim Sattar gender: male ethnicity: Uyghur occupation: local government functionary (retired), speaks Chinese Ibrahim Sattar and his wife Adelet Teyip went to Turkey in 2016 to meet their son Abulaziz Sattar. Upon the couple’s return to China, Ibrahim’s wife was detained and interrogated for two days. Several months later, Ibrahim and his wife were sent to a “re-education” camp. |
unknown | first detention in August 2016, then detained again in 2017 | second detention related to their son’s living in Canada | in “re-education” camp | https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-exporting-persecution-uyghur-diaspora-haunted-by-anxiety-guilt-as/ (published 12 AUG 2018) https://www.cecc.gov/sites/chinacommission.house.gov/files/documents/CECC%20Pris%20List_20181011_1424.pdf (published 11 OCT 2018) |
— | 55+ | M | Uyghur | — | concentration camp | before 2017 | relative(s) | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 2228 | Memeteli Sopi | 65????19????????O? | H. | information publicly available | name: Memeteli Sopi gender: male ethnicity: Uyghur age: 70s (in March 2018) occupation: worked at prefectural government (retired) Memeteli Sopi is the father-in-law of Eset Sulaiman, a RFA journalist. |
Kumul | Oct-17 | probably because his relative works as a reporter at RFA | in “re-education” camp | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/world/asia/china-xinjiang-rfa.html (published 1 MAR 2018) http://www1.alliancefr.com/actualites/les-musulmans-ouigours-en-chine-maltraites-pour-les-reportages-de-leurs-proches-aux-etats-unis-6072795 (published 18 DEC 2018) https://www.rfa.org/english/news/special/uyghurfamilies/ (published 4 APR 2018) |
Mentioned in the CECC report | 55+ | M | Uyghur | Hami | concentration camp | Oct. 2017 – Dec. 2017 | relative(s) | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 2229 | Saadet Kichik | 6522??19????????E? | H. | information publicly available | name: Saadet Kichik gender: female ethnicity: Uyghur age: 70s (in March 2018) occupation: worked at prefectural government (retired) Sadder Kichik is the mother-in-law of Eset Sulaiman, a RFA journalist. |
Kumul | Oct-17 | robably because his relative works as a reporter for RFA | in “re-education” camp | https://www.rfa.org/english/news/special/uyghurfamilies/ (published 4 APR 2018) http://www1.alliancefr.com/actualites/les-musulmans-ouigours-en-chine-maltraites-pour-les-reportages-de-leurs-proches-aux-etats-unis-6072795 (published 18 DEC 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/world/asia/china-xinjiang-rfa.html (published 1 MAR 2018) |
Mentioned in the CECC report | 55+ | F | Uyghur | Hami | concentration camp | Oct. 2017 – Dec. 2017 | relative(s) | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 2334 | Nurmemet Mehsud | 65????19????????O? | H. | information publicly available | name: Nurmemet Hajim gender: male ethnicity: Uyghur age: in his 30s (as of 25 SEPT 2018) occupation: worked in an Arab consulateHe is a nephew of Muhammad Salih Hajim (#256) and the son of Mehsud Abley and Ayqshemqiz who have all been detained in December 2017. Nurmemet had worked at an ‘Arab consulate’ for the past seven or eight years in Beijing after having obtained a master’s degree in Arab literature while studying in Egypt, Yemen and Malaysia. He was arrested in Beijing. |
unknown | possibly December 2017 | unknown, but some of his family members were involved in religious education/studies which may be a reason for his detention. He himself had studied in Muslim countries and was working in an Arab consulate. | arrested [update from family members in November 2019: still in prison, sentence length unknown] |
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/scholar-09252018145144.html (published 25 SEPT 2018) | — | — | M | Uyghur | — | unclear (hard) | Oct. 2017 – Dec. 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 2360 | Tahir Nasir | 塔依尔·那斯尔 | 652923196109????O? | Testimony 1: Abduweli Ayup, a language activist, linguist, and writer, originally from Kashgar but now residing in Norway. (relation unclear) Testimony 2: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party. Testimony 3: Unknown, identity not verified. (relation unclear) |
Tahir Nasir. He was born in september, 1961 in Kucha county. He was a graduate of Xinjiang University. He was former head and vice editor in chief at Xinjiang Educational Press, Educational supervisor for the People’s Government of XUAR. | — | Testimony 2: investigation notice posted on May 18, 2017 [unclear when actually detained] | Testimony 2: seriously breaching Party discipline Testimony 3: a “speak out and brandish the sword” (发声亮剑) document uploaded to the Chinese repository doc88.com in November 2018 denounces him (together with Wang Yongzhi and Ehet Sayit) as a “two-faced” official. |
Testimony 1: in detention Testimony 2: under investigation |
Testimony 1: not stated Testimony 2: this is a government body in charge of prosecuting government officials. |
This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals (Testimony 1), available at here. Testimony 3: https://archive.vn/zq83D His Baike Baidu |
Testimony 1: Abduweli Ayup, a language activist, linguist, and writer, originally from Kashgar but now residing in Norway. (relation unclear) Testimony 2: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party. Testimony 3: Unknown, identity not verified. (relation unclear) |
55+ | M | Uyghur | — | unclear (hard) | — | two-faced | breach of Party discipline | — | — | — | government | ||||||||||
| 2518 | Nijat Memtimin | 65????19????????O? | This victim is placed in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals made by Abduweli Ayup. | none | Nijat Memtimin. He was a photographer, a staff at Kashgar Government Administration Communications Office. He is in detention and current situation is unknown. | possibly in Kashgar | unknown | unknown | in detention | unclear | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. This victim is also in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals provided by Uyghuraid. |
— | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 2610 | Imam Husen Muhemmet | 65300119????????O? | Testimony 1: Gulshen Manapova, an ethnic Uyghur and Uzbekistan citizen, now living in Kazakhstan. (sister-in-law) Testimony 2*: Gulshen Manapova, as reported by Gene A. Bunin. (sister-in-law) Testimony 3: Gulshen Manapova, as reported by The Believer. (sister-in-law) |
Imam Husan, Uyghur. [from interview with Gulshan (Testimony 2): Imam Husan Muhemmet, around 70 years old, retired. Previously worked in a health inspection committee. His wife is a teacher. His daughter-in-law was a nurse at a camp.] |
Died in a camp in Kizilsu. | [from interview with Gulshan: taken to camp at the same time as Hesenjan Qari {1764}, so September 2017. Died in camp in November 2018.] | — | died in the re-education camp three months ago (as of February 3, 2019) | not stated | Gulshen’s interview to The Believer (Testimony 3) (https://believermag.com/weather-reports-voices-from-xinjiang/): Mostly men are taken to the camps. What happens then? The authorities send loyal Chinese families from the coast to live with the women in the homes of the disappeared. A Han Chinese man is sent to Xinjiang and placed in the house where the detained person had lived. Or it could be a couple. Or a family with kids. But sometimes it’s just one man who is sent to live in a house full of women… They lecture their hosts about the Communist Party. They continue to live among the family even when the detained family member returns. Everyone I know who spent some time in the camp, who was released to their home in China—in every case I know about, they have Chinese families living with them, lecturing them. And the families will report on any misbehavior. If you so much as look at them in a disagreeable way, they might tell the authorities and have you taken away to the camp. My husband’s relatives have such people living with them. As a result, these days their phones are almost always switched off. They’re afraid. I try to reach them to find out about my husband, but they call only when the “visitors” are out of the house. I grew up speaking Uighur. My family is Uighur. My parents escaped to the Soviet Union in 1969 and settled in Kazakhstan. Back in China they were cattle herders, but in Kazakhstan they became cooks. Later, when I was young, we went to Uzbekistan looking for work. They opened a café there. I’m an Uzbek citizen, actually. I met Aishanjiang and we were married in Tashkent in 1997. He was visiting from China, doing some business there. He worked with textile factories, importing fabric from China into Central Asia. The border was easy at the time: you just crossed it. I came with my husband to Kazakhstan and we opened a shop here. We were just starting our business when he was arrested. He was going to visit some of our factories in Ürümqi. As soon as he entered China, his passport was taken from him. He was brought to Atush, his birthplace. And from there he wasn’t allowed to leave. At the time, we hadn’t heard anything about the camps. He went into China without any knowledge of them. Such cases of people being taken to camps are rare in Ürümqi, where he did business, so when they told him to come in for questions, he went. The day he was taken, he had some idea of what was happening. He called me to say he was going to be taken to a camp. I don’t know if I’m going to be back or not, he said. He couldn’t say any more. He couldn’t describe his situation. What are you going to do? I asked. Why are you being sent to a camp? To study, he said. But you’re old, I told him. You’re almost fifty. He said that one of his relatives—almost eighty years old—was already studying in the same camp. Age is irrelevant, he said. That was last October. Since then, he’s vanished. I heard he’s in prison now. And others—there are many others. My husband’s older brother died in the same camp where my husband was. He was almost sixty years old. The authorities said he had a precondition, an illness of some kind, but he was healthy when I knew him. And my husband’s sister’s son was sentenced to twenty years in prison for making hajj. My sister-in-law’s husband, the imam at Atush, was sentenced to fourteen years. I’ve heard from his wife that he’s in the prison hospital. His condition isn’t good. And there are many other relatives whose fate I don’t know. Probably they’re all in prison but I don’t know. I can’t tell. |
Testimony 1: Gulshen Manapova, an ethnic Uyghur and Uzbekistan citizen, now living in Kazakhstan. (sister-in-law) Testimony 2*: Gulshen Manapova, as reported by Gene A. Bunin. (sister-in-law) Testimony 3: Gulshen Manapova, as reported by The Believer. (sister-in-law) |
55+ | M | Uyghur | Kizilsu | concentration camp | July 2017 – Sep. 2017 | — | — | — | — | deceased | government | |||||||||||
| 2953 | Zohre Talip | 早然木·塔力甫 | 652201196410152742 | Testimony 1*|4|5|6|7|10: Zulhumar Isaac, an ethnic Uyghur and Chinese citizen, currently resides in Sweden with her husband. She graduated from Beijing University in 2011, majoring in journalism, then worked for tech companies in Beijing. (daughter) Testimony 2: Zumret Isaac, as reported by Apple Daily. (daughter) Testimony 3: Zulhumar Isaac, as reported by Gene A. Bunin. (daughter) Testimony 8: Zulhumar Isaac, as reported by South China Morning Post. (daughter) Testimony 9: Zumret Isaac, as reported by South China Morning Post. (daughter) Testimony 11: Zulhumar Isaac, as reported by New York Times. (daughter) |
[Testimony 1:] My mother Zöhre Talip(早然木·塔力甫) was taken away in early November, 2018. I noticed her disappearance because she was no longer responding on WeChat. And my father was hesitant in telling about her whereabouts. She was a party committee member at Ethnic and Religious Commission (民宗委) of the city of Qomul before her retirement in late 2017. My mother used to work in the Zhang Chunxian era “visit-benefit-unite” (访惠聚) project before her retirement. She worked as a village official for the local community: providing useful information, helping people get their welfare, etc. She managed to help build a new bridge for this village, people were so thankful that they named the bridge after her. [Testimony 11: In the spring of 2009, Zohre was sent to attend a five-month party-cadre training seminar in the southern city of Guangzhou. She was then a director of the bureau of language and script as a midlevel official.] |
Qomul/Hami | November, 2018. [Testimony 11: Humar believes that her mother was taken to a camp around October 2018 when she stopped answering her messages.] |
Unknown [victim’s daughter Zumret to Apple Daily (Testimony 2): Perhaps her opposition to the scrapping of “two-language education” system in Xinjiang] |
[G. A. Bunin (Testimony 3): previously believed to be in detention, but became reachable a day after her daughter called the Hami Daily office asking to talk to her father. Contact was lost again towards the end of March 2019.] [Testimony 11: On May 14, Zohre called Humar. “Your dad was just saying — apparently they published a film with Zumret in The South China Morning Post. Who was responsible for this?” She asked. “That was when you had disappeared,” Humar told her. “Well, since we’ve told you we were being treated for medical issues, would it not be possible to delete it? Your father saw the video and got so angry that his blood pressure got really high. We wondered what our daughters had done. It didn’t matter that we told you how it was. They published the thing, and now what’s going to become of us?” Zohre started crying. “We’re living well. Your father is working. He has his salary, and every month I’m getting mine. I’ve even sent money to Zumret. The government is, you know, treating us so well. Not a single thing has gone wrong. We told you that we were ill. Can you please just do it? Just think about it.” Her voice grew faint. “What have you done to us?”] [victim’s daughter Zumret to Apple Daily (Testimony 2): under house arrest] [victim’s daughter Humar on Twitter in mid November 2019: at home, has access to phone, gained some weight, partakes in some regular activities] |
I got calls from cousins and uncles. They were asked to take some money and clothes for my parents, but they were not allowed to visit them. [victim’s daughter Zumret to Apple Daily (Testimony 2): Her father told about his wife’s detention in a call, before being taken away himself a few weeks later.] |
My interview on Foreign Policy podcast [Testimony 4]:
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Testimony 1*|4|5|6|7|10: Zulhumar Isaac, an ethnic Uyghur and Chinese citizen, currently resides in Sweden with her husband. She graduated from Beijing University in 2011, majoring in journalism, then worked for tech companies in Beijing. (daughter) Testimony 2: Zumret Isaac, as reported by Apple Daily. (daughter) Testimony 3: Zulhumar Isaac, as reported by Gene A. Bunin. (daughter) Testimony 8: Zulhumar Isaac, as reported by South China Morning Post. (daughter) Testimony 9: Zumret Isaac, as reported by South China Morning Post. (daughter) Testimony 11: Zulhumar Isaac, as reported by New York Times. (daughter) |
55+ | F | Uyghur | Hami | house/town arrest | Oct. 2018 – Dec. 2018 | — | — | — | — | has problems | government | ||||||||||
| 3019 | Ibrahim Mamut | 65??????????????O? | Testimony 1: Adile Sadir, now living in Boston, where she is the owner of an Uyghur restaurant. She obtained a bachelor’s degree from UMass Boston. (cousin) Testimony 2|3: Mariye Muhemmed, originally from Atush but now residing in Boston, where she helps operate an Uyghur restaurant. (aunt) |
Ibrahim Mamut (伊布拉姆*马木提) worked for the government and was very well respected in his town. | — | Testimony 2: taken to camp in 2018. | — | Testimony 1: According to the testifier, in a concentration camp. Testimony 3: still believed to be in detention. |
Not stated. | — | Testimony 1: Adile Sadir, now living in Boston, where she is the owner of an Uyghur restaurant. She obtained a bachelor’s degree from UMass Boston. (cousin) Testimony 2|3: Mariye Muhemmed, originally from Atush but now residing in Boston, where she helps operate an Uyghur restaurant. (aunt) |
— | M | Uyghur | — | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3112 | Wayit Omer | 653021197007100037 | Testimony 1*|2|3|4|5: Kewser Wayit, a college student in the United States. He is originally from Atush. (son) | Wayit Umar (Wayiti Wumaier), 49, was born in Atux. His Chinese ID is 653021197007100037. He worked for the city government and retired in age of 44 due to his health conditions. | “Re-education” camp in Atux (Atushi in Chinese) | July 16th, 2017 | Due to his 10-day business travel to Turkey | According to my mother, he is doing good [Testimony 2: on April 18, 2019, the testifier reported that his father had been freed.] [in his video testimony (Testimony 3), Kewser mentions that his father appears to be suffering from headaches and high blood pressure after his release, but he cannot openly talk to him about his detention experiences and find out what exactly happened] [from video update (Testimony 4): Kewser lost contact with his parents a week after he made his video testimony for the Uyghur Pulse Project on September 7, 2019. He still hasn’t been able to re-establish contact.] |
I heard everything from mom, who was the only person I could contact. My mom says he can call her once or twice a week. I had contact with my mother until March 14th, 2019. Since then, authorities told her not to pick up my call according to my sister . | My father was out for hospital twice in 2017 and once in 2018 due to high pressure blood. Last time I talked to him was in Dec, 2017 when he was in hospital. I was not allowed to talk to him when he was in hospital in 2018. I had no idea how bad was his condition since I couldn’t tell if my mom was being honest with me. Since then, my mother had video chats with him a few times at the local neighborhood center and she was arranged to visit him once a month or once in two months. I have twin siblings. They are both in middle school and going to take entrance exam for high school soon. It has been a lot of pressure for my mom to work full time as a teacher, go to “Chinese relatives” house weekly and take care of the family same time. [The testifier’s self-introduction, removed during editing: “I, Kewser Wayit, am a college student in the United States. Since 2013, I’ve been back home three times. Last time was in the summer of 2016. For the past two years, I’ve been keeping silent and fearing the worst, like many others.”] |
Testimony 1*|2|3|4|5: Kewser Wayit, a college student in the United States. He is originally from Atush. (son) | Wayit Omer was born in Atush and worked for the city government, before retiring at the age of 44 because of health issues. | Back home in Atush [presumably]. | Detained on July 16, 2017 and taken to a “re-education” camp in Atush. He was taken out and to a hospital twice in 2017 because of high pressure blood, and once again in 2018. On April 18, 2019, Kewser talked to him briefly and learned that he had been released. |
His 10-day business trip to Turkey. | According to Kewser’s mother, he is doing “well”. However, he now suffers from frequent headaches and high blood pressure following his detention. | During the victim’s detention, Kewser heard everything from his mother, who was the only person he could contact. She said that he could call her once or twice a week. Kewser also talked to his father once in December 2017, while he was in the hospital because of high blood pressure, but would not be allowed to talk to him when he was in the hospital again in 2018. After his latest hospitalization, Kewser’s mother would have video chats with the victim a few times from the local neighborhood administration office, in addition to visiting him once every month or two. Kewser’s contact with his mother was broken on March 14, 2019, however, as the authorities told her not to answer his calls (according to his sister). Limited contact was reestablished with both parents afterwards, although Kewser once more lost contact a week after releasing a video testimony for the Uyghur Pulse project on September 7, 2019. He has not been able to contact them since. |
Kewser writes: “This whole ordeal has been extremely stressful for our family. I have twin siblings, who are both in middle school and are going to take the entrance exam for high school soon [as of March 2019]. It has been a lot of pressure for my mother to work full time as a teacher, to make weekly visits to the house of their “Chinese relatives”, and at the same time look after the family.” |
35-55 | M | Uyghur | Kizilsu | unclear (soft) | July 2017 – Sep. 2017 | related to going abroad | — | — | — | has problems | government | ||||
| 3122 | Abdurishit Imin | 65????19????????O? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Abdurishit Imin, from the XUAR Department of Agriculture. | — | Not stated. | — | In detention. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | — | M | Uyghur | — | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3124 | Ekber Ebeydulla | 65????19????????O? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Norway. Also bolstered with info from RFA report. | No known relation. | Ekber Ebeydulla, 47 (as of July 2019), from the Kashgar Department of Cultural Heritage Protection. | RFA report: still at the Doletbagh No. 4 High School camp in Kashgar. | RFA report: early 2017. | — | In detention. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. RFA coverage |
35-55 | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | concentration camp | Jan. 2017 – Mar. 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3135 | Turnan Qasim | 65????19????????O? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Turnan Qasim, from the propaganda branch of the CCP XUAR regional committee. | — | Not stated. | — | In detention. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | — | M | Uyghur | — | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3136 | Jelil Abdurahman | 65????19????????O? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Jelil Abdurahman, from the Urumqi Education Department. | Likely in Urumqi, given his job. | Not stated. | — | In detention. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | — | M | Uyghur | Urumqi | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3139 | Aygul Imin | 65????19????????E? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Aygul Imin, from Teaching & Study Office of the Urumqi Education Department (Tianshan District). | Likely in Urumqi, given her job. | Not stated. | — | In detention. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | — | F | Uyghur | Urumqi | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3144 | Esqer Qadir | 653130196010????O? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Esqer Qadir (艾斯盖·卡德尔), Vice President of the United Front Work Department of the Party Committee of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC). He has been a CCP Party member since 1989 and has been working most of his life for Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) 3rd division, 53th regiment (新疆生产建设兵团第三师53团) in Tumshuq (图木舒克市). Since February 2018, he holds three positions: – Vice President of the United Front Work Department of the Party Committee of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) (兵团党委统战部副部长) – Deputy Director of the Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs of the XPCC (兵团民族宗教事务局副局长) – Deputy Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the XPCC (兵团台湾事务办公室副主任) |
unknown (possibly Tumshuq) | A notice of his detention appeared on December 15, 2018. | VOA: “violation of Party discipline” Chinese source: “seriously violating the law” (涉嫌严重违纪违法) |
He is under disciplinary review and investigation since 15 December 2018 since he is suspected of having violated the law. No more details are available. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/18/12/15/n10912685.htm (15 DEC 2018) http://www.ccdi.gov.cn/yaowen/201812/t20181215_185179.html (15 DEC 2018) https://www.voachinese.com/a/Chinese-Official-Of-Muslin-Minority-Group-Under-Investigation-20181215/4702084.html (15 DEC 2018) |
55+ | M | Uyghur | — | unclear (hard) | Oct. 2018 – Dec. 2018 | — | breach of Party discipline | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3149 | Buhelchem Tursun | 65????19????????E? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Buhelchem Tursun, a former official from the Urumqi Import & Export Department. | Likely in Urumqi, given her past position. | Not stated. | — | In detention. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | — | F | Uyghur | Urumqi | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3170 | Abdurehim Osman | 65????19????????O? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Abdurehim Osman, vice chairman of religious and ethnic affairs at the local Kashgar CCP branch. | Likely in Kashgar, given his position. | Not stated. | — | In detention. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | — | M | Uyghur | — | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3217 | Turghun Asim | 65????19????????O? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Turghun Asim, 45 years old. Water engineer for the Kashgar city water administration department. | Presumably in Kashgar. | 2018. | — | In concentration camp. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | concentration camp | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3218 | Memtili Wahap | 65????197903????O? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Memtili Wahap, 40 (as of March 2019), from the Kashgar city water administration department. | Presumably in Kashgar. | Not stated. | — | In detention. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3219 | Nurmemet Niyaz | 65????197903????O? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Nurmemet Niyaz, 30 (as of March 2019), from the Kashgar city water administration department. | Presumably in Kashgar. | Not stated. | — | In detention. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3220 | Ekber Emet | 65????198203????O? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Ekber Emet, 37 (as of March 2019), from the Kashgar city water administration department. | Presumably in Kashgar. | Not stated. | — | In detention. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3221 | Abdughopur Tursun | 65????196503????O? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Abdughopur Tursun, 54 (as of March 2019), from the Kashgar city water administration department. | Presumably in Kashgar. | Not stated. | — | In detention. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3222 | Sabirjan Hamut | 65????197103????O? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Sabirjan Hamut, 48 (as of March 2019), from the Kashgar city water administration department. | Presumably in Kashgar. | Not stated. | — | In detention. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3429 | Azimet Alim | 65402619????????O? | Ayinigar Yarmuhammat, an Uyghur born in No. 224, Military District, Zhaosu county, Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture | Cousin | Azimet Alim, born after 1983. Works in the Transport Administration Bureau. | Zhaosu county, Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture | 2017 | — | Fired from his unit and sent to re-education camp | Unclear | — | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Ili | concentration camp | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3461 | Melikhan Muhammed | 6521??19????????E? | Abdusim Litip. Came to Turkey for travel in June 2016 | Wife | Melikhan Muhammed, works at the Agricultural Machinery Administration Office in Turpan. Through a friend, his wife conveyed the following message: “He should forget us (wife and children) and he should not worry about us. Perhaps we will meet again, but I will possibly divorce him since I have no choice” | Chatiqal village, Chatiqal township (恰特喀勒乡), Gaochang disctrict, Turpan municipality | Unclear | — | Unclear | Through a friend | Their son, Alimjan Abdusim, studies at Ningxia University. | — | F | Uyghur | Turpan | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3653 | Ilham Rozibaqi | 653222196401100011 | Yilihamu Ruzewake 伊力哈木 如则瓦柯 [mistake on submitting party’s part – victim’s name given instead of testifier’s] | The victim is the testifier’s father | My father, Yilihamu Ruzewake, was born on Jan.10, 1964 (Passport #: G52111700), served as the vice president of the local tax bureau of Karkash (Moyu). He was a member of the communist party and contributed all his life to his work. My father had been diagnosed as hypertension, type II diabetes and experienced heart attack so he took medicines before being arrested. [NYT video opinion piece: ran family restaurant and grocery store] |
He lived in Karkash (Moyu county 墨玉县) Hotan (Hetian City 和田地区),Xinjiang China. | I heard this at the end of 2017 [G. A. Bunin: in a separate testimony for his mother, the testifier says that his parents’ passports were already confiscated in 2016] [from NYT video opinion piece: Last contact made on December 31, 2017] |
Financially supported my brother to receive undergraduate education in Egypt then Turkey (because Egypt gov started to repatriate Uyghur students to China in 2014) and me to pursue master degree in the U.S.. My parents visited me in Aug. 2016 for 29 days. | Arrested in the Jail. [NYT video opinion piece: “studying”] |
From my friend who works for the Chinese police. | Both of my parents were arrested, one for 10 years, and another one for 15 years, but I don’t know with one for 10 years, with one for 15 years. | 55+ | M | Uyghur | Hotan | unclear (hard) | before 2017 | related to going abroad | — | — | — | has problems | government | |||||||||||
| 3654 | Zeminisa Memeteysa | 653222196801050025 | Adili Yilihamu | The victim is the testifier’s mother | My mom, Zeminisa Maimaitiaisa (则米尼萨 麦麦提艾萨, Passport #: G52111701), was born on Jan. 05, 1968, served as a leader of the Karkash (Moyu) culture center, also ran some family businesses with my father at home. My parents’ passport were both taken away when they returned home from the U.S. in 2016. My mom was healthy before being arrested, but was under serious stress since 2017. [NYT video opinion piece: ran family restaurant and grocery store] |
Moyu county Hotan Xinjiang China. | Early 2018 [from NYT video opinion piece: Last contact made on December 31, 2017] |
Financially supported my brother and me to study abroad, visited my brother in Egypt in 2015 then me in the U.S. in 2018. | Arrested by Chinese Government to Jail. [NYT video opinion piece: taken to “study”] |
I heard from a friend works for the Chinese police. | My mom was arrested in 2018, but not sure in which month. | 35-55 | F | Uyghur | Hotan | unclear (hard) | before 2017 | related to going abroad | — | — | — | has problems | government | |||||||||||
| 3729 | Ziyawudun Choruq | 65280119????????O? | Victim’s name is included in the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Political Prisoner Database | – | Ziyawudun Choruq, an 82-year old former secretary of Qarayulgun village (哈拉玉宫村), Qarayulgun township, Korla municipality. After retiring in 2007, he became more involved in his local mosque, prayed regularly, and in 2015 undertook the Hajj on his own, apparently without enrolling in an official pilgrimage group. | Korla municipality, Bayingol Mongol autonomous prefecture | Sometime in 2017 | “two-faced” | In re-education camp (due to his age he was not sent to prison) | – | https://www.cecc.gov/sites/chinacommission.house.gov/files/documents/CECC%20Pris%20List_20181011_1424.pdf | 55+ | M | Uyghur | Bayingolin | concentration camp | — | — | two-faced | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3741 | Qurban Hekim | 653129??????????O? | Victim’s name is included in the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Political Prisoner Database | – | Qurban Hekim, the Communist Party secretary of Shaptul township (夏普吐勒乡), Peyziwat (Jiashi) county | Peyziwat (Jiashi) county, Kashgar prefecture | 2017 | For being “two-faced”. More specifically, for listening to the teachings of Alim Hesen, a local religious figure whom authorities sentenced to 7 years in prison after he urged local Uyghur residents not to pick cotton for ethnic Han farmers. | Sentenced to 7 years in prison | – | https://www.cecc.gov/sites/chinacommission.house.gov/files/documents/CECC%20Pris%20List_20181011_1424.pdf | — | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | sentenced | — | — | two-faced | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3755 | Yasin Tursun | 65312919????????O? | Victim’s name is included in the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Political Prisoner Database | – | Yasin Tursun, a Communist Party member in Shaptul township (夏普吐勒乡), Jiashi county | Peyziwat (Jiashi) county, Kashgar prefecture | 2017 | two faced and “performing prayers and [attending] religious sermons.” More specifically, for listening to the religious teachings of Alim Hesen, a local religious figure whom authorities sentenced to 7 years in prison after he urged local Uyghur residents not to pick cotton for ethnic Han farmers. |
Sentenced to 7 years in prison | – | Tursun Hoshur, the victim’s father, reportedly made a partial confession in early 2017 regarding his son’s activities, but police detained him after further investigation. CECC report |
— | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | sentenced | — | — | two-faced | related to religion | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3769 | Omerjan Hesen | 65????19????????O? | Victim’s name is included in the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Political Prisoner Database | – | Omerjan Hesen, director of the Hotan Archives Administration | Prison in Korla, Bayangol Mongol autonomous prefecture | 5-ئاي 1, 2017 | “being “two-faced”: reportedly for viewing a film about the 1989 Tiananmen protests and not being “proactive” enough in the mass detentions of 2017″ | Sentenced to 11 years in prison | – | https://www.cecc.gov/sites/chinacommission.house.gov/files/documents/CECC%20Pris%20List_20181011_1424.pdf | — | M | Uyghur | Bayingolin | sentenced | Apr. 2017 – June 2017 | — | two-faced | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3770 | Elijan Ehmet | 65????19????????O? | Victim’s name is included in the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Political Prisoner Database | – | Elijan Ehmet, Party secretary of Yutian county, Hotan prefecture | Prison in Korla, Bayangol Mongol autonomous prefecture | 5-ئاي 1, 2017 | being “two-faced”: reportedly for viewing a film about the 1989 Tiananmen protests and not being “proactive” enough in the mass detentions of 2017 | sentenced to 11 years in prison | – | https://www.cecc.gov/sites/chinacommission.house.gov/files/documents/CECC%20Pris%20List_20181011_1424.pdf | — | M | Uyghur | Bayingolin | sentenced | Apr. 2017 – June 2017 | — | two-faced | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 3807 | Pezilet Bekri | 65??????????????E? | Victim’s name is included in the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Political Prisoner Database | – | Pezilet Bekri, Communist Party secretary of Yarwagh (亚瓦格) subdistrict of Kashgar city. Bekri’s responsibilities as Party secretary had included overseeing the detention of individuals and their transfer to re-education camps. | Kashgar | January 17, 2018 | Han Chinese officials who worked with Bekri reportedly told superiors she had expressed sympathy toward people detained in “political education centers.” | In detention | – | According to two sources RFA cited, authorities at one point held Bekri in a re-education camp, though this has not been confirmed. https://www.cecc.gov/sites/chinacommission.house.gov/files/documents/CECC%20Pris%20List_20181011_1424.pdf |
— | F | Uyghur | Kashgar | unclear (hard) | Jan. 2018 – Mar. 2018 | two-faced | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 4027 | Eziz Qeyyum | 艾则孜·克尤木 | 652924195710????O? | Testimony 1*: Osman Tarim, an Uyghur now living abroad. (acquaintance) Testimony 2|5: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party. Testimony 3: Urumqi Evening News, one of the main media outlets in Xinjiang. Testimony 4: Xinjiang People’s Procuratorate, the official prosecuting government body for Xinjiang. |
Eziz Qayum, a government official from Shayar county, Aksu prefecture. DOB: 1963 [Testimony 2: Eziz Qayum (艾则孜·克尤木), born October 1957 in Shayar county. Joined the CCP in 1985 and from then on has held various governmental posts in Aksu prefecture before being appointed Vice-Secretary of Xinjiang’s Agricultural Bureau in 2003. In 2013, he was transferred to Xinjiang’s Forestry Bureau, where he also worked as Vice-Secretary.] |
Detained in Urumqi | 2017 [Testimony 2-5: The investigation into his case was announced on June 5, 2016. He was detained on August 25, 2016 in Urumqi, officially arrested on September 10 later that year. On September 10, 2016, it was announced that he had been stripped of his Party membership and his position. His case was transferred to the prosecutor on November 10, 2016. A court session was held on February 22, 2017.] |
Unknown [Testimony 2: under investigation for serious breach of Party discipline Testimony 3: Corruption: he is accused of taking bribes 56 times, the total sum of which corresponds to 5 690 000 Chinese yuan. Testimony 4: accepting bribes Testimony 5: a large number of various corruption accusations] |
Unknown [Presumably in some form of detention.] |
From reliable sources in the region [Testimony 2-5: these are all official media/government sources] |
[Testimony 2: http://archive.is/JnGRO Testimony 3: http://archive.is/NZ2P7 Testimony 4: http://archive.is/JIGsO Testimony 5: http://archive.is/BMkIB Various people’s police commenting on his case: https://archive.vn/eoYlH Case mentioned by RFA His Sogou Baike] |
Testimony 1*: Osman Tarim, an Uyghur now living abroad. (acquaintance) Testimony 2|5: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party. Testimony 3: Urumqi Evening News, one of the main media outlets in Xinjiang. Testimony 4: Xinjiang People’s Procuratorate, the official prosecuting government body for Xinjiang. |
55+ | M | Uyghur | — | — | before 2017 | — | breach of Party discipline | taking bribes | corruption | — | government | ||||||||||
| 4267 | Abdukerim Yaqup | 65????19????????O? | Testimony 1: Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. Testimony 2: Someone in Beijing who knew the victim. |
Testimony 1: No known relation. Testimony 2: Acquaintance. |
Abdukerim Yaqup, the vice president of the Beijing XUAR office. | — | Testimony 2: Detained and taken to Xinjiang in 2017. | Testimony 2: Testifier heard that it was for financial or corruption reasons, but not sure. | Detained. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | — | M | Uyghur | — | unclear (hard) | — | other | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 4269 | Ehet Sayit | 艾海提·沙依提 | 6531??19????????O? | Testimony 1: Abduweli Ayup, a language activist, linguist, and writer, originally from Kashgar but now residing in Norway. (relation unclear) Testimony 2: Tianshan Net, a major online news portal in Xinjiang. Testimony 3: Unknown, identity not verified. (relation unclear) |
Ehet Sayit, a public figure and county mayor in Yarkand. | [Presumably in Kashgar.] | Not stated. Testimony 2: He was officially issued a strict warning (严重警告处分) following the Yarkand incident in July 2014. [However, this does not indicate that he was detained.] |
Testimony 3: a “speak out and brandish the sword” (发声亮剑) document uploaded to the Chinese repository doc88.com in November 2018 denounces Ehet Sayit (as well as Tahir Nasir and Wang Yongzhi) as being two-faced officials who breached the law and Party discipline. | Testimony 1: Detained. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals (Testimony 1), available at here. Tianshan report (Testimony 2) Document denouncing the victim (Testimony 3) |
Testimony 1: Abduweli Ayup, a language activist, linguist, and writer, originally from Kashgar but now residing in Norway. (relation unclear) Testimony 2: Tianshan Net, a major online news portal in Xinjiang. Testimony 3: Unknown, identity not verified. (relation unclear) |
— | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | unclear (hard) | — | two-faced | — | — | — | — | government | ||||||||||
| 4270 | Abdugheni Jume | 6531??19????????O? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Abdugheni Jume, a public figure and county mayor of Mekit County. | Presumably in Kashgar. | Not stated. | — | Detained. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | — | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 4271 | Ghali Rahman | 6531??19????????O? | Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, linguist, activist now living in Turkey. | No known relation. | Ghali Rahman, a public figure and county mayor of Peyzawat. | In Kashgar, presumably. | Not stated. | — | Detained. | Not stated. | This victim is included in the list of detained Uyghur intellectuals, available at here. | — | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 4377 | Qurban Mesum | 65292919????????O? | Nurgul Mesum, Uyghur from Kelpin township of Aqsu prefecture. | older brother | Qurban Mesum. He was a graduate of Beijing Nationality University. He worked as a translator and administrative officer for 24 years at people’s government (xelq Hokumiti) at Aqsu city. He was arrested in the night at his home in late October, 2017. He was sentence for 18 years in the name of helping his sister (testifier) getting passport. | Aqsu | October, 2017 | helping sister getting passport | in prison | contacting her father. | His mother passed away 2 moths later his detention because of mental attack from his detention. | — | M | Uyghur | Aksu | sentenced | Oct. 2017 – Dec. 2017 | other | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 4614 | Ekber Hojaehmet | 6501??1978??????O? | Mezze Uyghur | not clear | Ekber Hoja’ehmet. He was born in Urumqi in 1978. He was a college graduate of 2000, and worked for the government for 15 years. He resigned from his job in 2015. He got arrested in 2017, and current situation is unknown. | Urumqi [presumably] | 2017 | unknown | in detention, no news since | unclear | According to one of the comments on the Facebook testimony, the daughter’s name is Adeena Akbar. | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Urumqi | no news for over a year | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 4628 | Mahire Nurmuhemmed | 650104198102141727 | Testimony 1: Muhemmed Eli, originally from Atush. After studying in Egypt, he came to Turkey in 2017. (brother-in-law) Testimony 2: Mewlude Nurmuhemmed, sister of victim Mahire Nurmuhemmed. (sister) Testimony 3|4: Nur’eli, an underage student in Turkey. (son) Testimony 5*: Mewlude Nurmuhemmed, as reported by Gene A. Bunin. (sister) |
Mahire Nurmuhemmed (玛依拉·努尔买买提) was a government administrator, who retired because of health problems. She was arrested in her house in Urumqi and transferred to Artush. Address: Apt. 302, No. 3 Entrance, Building 6, Section A of the Chenguang Huayuan Residential Complex, Tuanjie Road, Tianshan District, Urumqi, Xinjiang (新疆乌鲁木齐市天山区团结路晨光花园A区六号楼三单元302) |
Artush city, Kizilsu Kyrgyz autonomous prefecture Testimony 5: despite being sentenced, she remains in a pre-trial detention center in Kizilsu. |
November 18, 2018 | Sending her son to Egypt a very young age to study Islam. Testimony 2: “Holding problematic religious ideology of Islam.” |
Sentenced to 16 years in prison Testimony 4: Nur’eli heard in January 2019 that she had been sentenced to 16.5 years. |
Not stated | Testimony 4: Nur’eli says that he is staying and studying at high school legally in Turkey. His mother’s imprisonment is affecting his mood and study badly. | Testimony 1: Muhemmed Eli, originally from Atush. After studying in Egypt, he came to Turkey in 2017. (brother-in-law) Testimony 2: Mewlude Nurmuhemmed, sister of victim Mahire Nurmuhemmed. (sister) Testimony 3|4: Nur’eli, an underage student in Turkey. (son) Testimony 5*: Mewlude Nurmuhemmed, as reported by Gene A. Bunin. (sister) |
Mahire Nurmuhemmed (玛依拉·努尔买买提) worked as a government administrator, and had retired due to health problems. Address: Apt. 302, No. 3 Entrance, Building 6, Section A of the Chenguang Huayuan Residential Complex, Tuanjie Road, Tianshan District, Urumqi, Xinjiang (新疆乌鲁木齐市天山区团结路晨光花园A区六号楼三单元302). |
In a pre-trial detention center in Kizilsu. | Arrested on November 18, 2018 at her home in Urumqi and transferred to Atush. [It is not clear when she was sentenced, but likely very soon after, as Nur’eli heard about it in January 2019.] | According to Muhemmed Eli, for sending her son to Egypt at a very young age to study Islam. According to Mewlude Nurmuhemmed, for “having the problematic religious ideology of Islam”. |
Sentenced to 16 years in prison. However, she is still in a pre-trial detention center. | Not stated. | — | 16 | 35-55 | F | Uyghur | Kizilsu | sentenced | Oct. 2018 – Dec. 2018 | related to religion | — | — | — | has problems | government | |||
| 4637 | Tursunjan Rejep | 6532??19????????O? | 古丽鲜 艾力 | 舅舅 | 土尔逊江.热杰浦 [supplement by testifier: in his late 40s, an assistant government worker in a small village] |
新疆和田 | 2018年九月 | 不清楚 | 没有任何消息 | 听爸爸说的 | — | Gulshen Eli. | The victim is the testifier’s uncle. | Tursunjan Rejep (土尔逊江·热杰浦), in his late 40s, was an assistant government worker in a small village. | Hotan. | September 2018. | — | No news whatsoever. | Testifier heard this from her father. | — | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Hotan | concentration camp | July 2018 – Sep. 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | government | ||
| 4660 | Ehet Hesen | 65312519????????O? | Abdulla Tohti Arish | Relative | Ahet Hesen, He retired from secretary for Agricultural Bureau of Yarkant. (Relatives by marriage of our family) | Yarkant | 2017 [testifier: released sometime in mid-late 2019] |
— | — | through contacts in the region | — | — | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | unclear (soft) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 4787 | Nur Bekri | 努尔·白克力 | 650102196108034517 | Testimony 1: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party. Testimony 2: People’s Daily, the largest newspaper group in China. Testimony 3: Xinhua News Agency, the official state-run press agency of the People’s Republic of China. |
Nur Bekri, Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission and Director of the Energy Bureau. Born in Bortala city in August 1961. | [Unclear, as sentenced.] | Liaoning province court filed the charges on April 2018, and he was detained later in September 2018 | Testimony 1: “breach of Party discipline” Testimony 2-3: Corruption charges |
Testimony 2: Sentenced. Testimony 3: sentenced to life. |
Testimony 1: this is a government body with direct knowledge of the case. Testimony 2-3: this is an official media outlet of the government. |
Investigation notice (Testimony 1) Voice of America coverage People’s Daily coverage (Testimony 2) Xinhua coverage (Testimony 3) South China Morning Post coverage His Baidu Baike His Wikipedia Entry |
Testimony 1: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party. Testimony 2: People’s Daily, the largest newspaper group in China. Testimony 3: Xinhua News Agency, the official state-run press agency of the People’s Republic of China. |
100 | 55+ | M | Uyghur | — | sentenced | July 2018 – Sep. 2018 | — | breach of Party discipline | corruption | — | — | government | |||||||||
| 4915 | Erkin Ayup | 65312119????????O? | Testimony 1|2: Abduweli Ayup, a language activist, linguist, and writer, originally from Kashgar but now residing in Norway. (brother) Testimony 3|4: Local government employee, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (from same town/region) Testimony 5*: Anonymous, as reported by Gene A. Bunin. |
Erkin Ayup, a local CCP chief from Konasheher (Toqquz’aq) County in Kashgar. RFA report: he graduated from the geography department at Xinjiang University in 1987. |
RFA report: In a camp near the Kashgar airport. | Testimony 2: approximately in September 2017. RFA report: arrested for almost 3 years (as of November 2019), suggesting that initial rumors about his arrest in May 2017 may have been true. |
— | No news since his arrest. Testimony 5: A phone call by a shahit.biz volunteer to someone in the region at the end of September 2019 confirmed that Erkin was not at home, was doing “well”, did not answer his mobile phone, and didn’t have a new number (suggesting that he has not been released). |
Testimony 1-2: not stated. Testimony 3-4: these are government officials in the region. Testimony 5: from sources in the region. |
RFA coverage (Testimony 3-4) | Testimony 1|2: Abduweli Ayup, a language activist, linguist, and writer, originally from Kashgar but now residing in Norway. (brother) Testimony 3|4: Local government employee, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (from same town/region) Testimony 5*: Anonymous, as reported by Gene A. Bunin. |
Erkin Ayup, a local CCP chief from Konasheher (Toqquz’aq) County in Kashgar. He graduated from Xinjiang University’s geography department in 1987. | According to a Radio Free Asia report, he is being held at a camp near the Kashgar Airport. | According to Abduweli Ayup, approximately in September 2017. However, a Radio Free Asia investigation was able to confirm that he’s been detained for “almost three years”, suggesting the possible truth behind other rumors of him being arrested in May 2017. | — | Believed to be in camp. A phone call by a shahit.biz volunteer to someone in the region at the end of September 2019 confirmed that Erkin was not at home, was doing “well”, did not answer his mobile phone, and didn’t have a new number (suggesting that he has not been released). |
It is not clear how Abduweli Ayup learned about the detention. The government officials that Radio Free Asia spoke to would presumably have more direct knowledge of the case, however. The shahit.biz volunteer got the news from talking to someone in the region. | RFA coverage | — | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | concentration camp | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | ||||
| 4939 | Erkin Qadir | 65????19????????O? | J. Bagdonas, database volunteer | N/A | Erkin Qadir, works in the Kashgar Agricultural Bureau. | Kashgar | Unclear, but he is reportedly to have been released for 24 hours to visit his home in February 2019 | Unknown | In re-education camp | RFA article: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/releases-02282019144335.html | — | — | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | concentration camp | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 5088 | Tursun Barat | 吐尔逊·巴拉提 | 652401195004300910 | Shemsiye Tursun, an ethnic Uyghur who moved from Xinjiang to Turkey 7 years ago. | The victim is the testifier’s father. | Tursun Barat had a position in the Ethnic Unity Department in Ghulja City prior to his retirement. Address: Yard No. 31, First Alley, Baghcha Street, Ghulja City, Xinjiang (新疆伊宁市公园街1巷31号院). Chinese passport: G21276585. |
[Likely in Ili, though not certain.] | Shemsiye lost contact with her parents in October 2017. In April 2018, she learned that they had been arrested and secretly sentenced to 20 years in prison. | Visiting Shemsiye in Turkey (her parents visited her on three occasions). | Presumably in prison. He has health issues, as he suffers from diabetes and is insulin-dependent, in addition to having heart-failure problems. |
Not stated. | — | Shemsiye Tursun, an ethnic Uyghur who moved from Xinjiang to Turkey 7 years ago. | The victim is the testifier’s father. | Tursun Barat had a position in the Ethnic Unity Department in Ghulja City prior to his retirement. Address: Yard No. 31, First Alley, Baghcha Street, Ghulja City, Xinjiang (新疆伊宁市公园街1巷31号院). Chinese passport: G21276585. |
[Unclear, since he’s been sentenced.] | Shemsiye lost contact with her parents in October 2017. In April 2018, she learned that they had been arrested and secretly sentenced to 20 years in prison. | Visiting Shemsiye in Turkey (her parents visited her on three occasions). | Presumably in prison. He has health issues, as he suffers from diabetes and is insulin-dependent, in addition to having heart-failure problems. |
Not stated. | RFA coverage | 20 | 55+ | M | Uyghur | Ili | sentenced | Oct. 2017 – Dec. 2017 | related to going abroad | — | — | — | critical | government |
| 5104 | Ablimit Omer | 65????19????????O? | H. | no relation, information publicly available | Ablimit Omer, male, Uyghur, was the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Elishku’s No. 2 village (Elishku township, Yarkant county, Kashgar prefecture). | probably Elishku township, Yarkant county, Kashgar prefecture | early 2017 | He was detained because he had resigned (with official approval) due to complications from an injury he sustained while fleeing an incident of unrest in 2014 in Elishku township, Yarkand county, Kashgar prefecture. Three years later, his resignation was labeled as an “act against the government’. He was released only after officials listened to voicemail messages from other officials who had asked Ablimit to help calm down the 2014 Elishku protests. | released after one month of detention | https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/resignation-08062019175308.html (6 AUG 2019) https://www.rfa.org/uyghur/xewerler/ilishqu-weqesi-07302019115555.html |
— | — | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | — | Jan. 2017 – Mar. 2017 | — | other | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 5116 | Alip Ablimit | 6532??19????????O? | J., a database volunteer | No relation | Alip Ablimit (阿力甫·阿不力米提), a Party official from Hotan. | Hotan prefecture | Information of his arrest published on governmental pages on July 19, 2019 | Breach of Party discipline | Under arrest | RFA article | — | — | M | Uyghur | Hotan | — | July 2019 – Sep. 2019 | — | breach of Party discipline | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 5487 | Abdugheni Turdi | 65312519????????O? | This is a news report by RFA | No known relations | His name is Abdugheni Turdi. He was the secretary of discipline inspection commission of Dongbagh Township in Yarkand County. | [In Yarkand at the time of his death.] | Presumably not detained, but shot dead during the Elishqu Massacre in 2014. | — | According to the news report, he was shot [and dead] with local inhabitants in an incident of unrest in 2014 in Elishku township, Yarkand county, Kashgar. | Not stated, but the victim’s photo was provided by an RFA reader/listener. | — | — | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | other | before 2017 | — | — | — | — | deceased | government | |||||||||||
| 5488 | Ghulam Tohti | 65312519????????O? | This is a news report by RFA | No known relations | His name is Ghulam Toxti. He was the administrative chief of Dongbagh Township | [Presumably in Yarkend, which he was reportedly shot.] | Not detained, but allegedly shot dead in Yarkand in 2014. | — | According to the news report, he was shot [and dead] with local inhabitants in an incident of unrest in 2014 in Elishku township, Yarkand county, Kashgar. | Not stated. | — | — | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | other | before 2017 | — | — | — | — | deceased | government | |||||||||||
| 5652 | Eset Telet | 艾斯艾提·塔拉提 | 65410119671028??O? | Testimony 1*|2: Arafat Erkin, originally from Ghulja, but now living in the United States. (nephew) | Eset Telet (Aisiaiti tailaiti) Residential address: No.6, 9th avenue, Xinhua xi Road,Ghulja, Uyghur Autonomous region Employee at Gulja Local Taxation Bureau Date of Birth :1967 October 28 He was released in Early 2019 Ironically, He appeared on State propaganda video on November 2019, forced to speak against his sister’s son Alfred Erkin ,part of Chinese government’s campaign to discredit Alfred’s testimony about his arbitrarily detained parents (in the video, he expresses ‘disappointment’ towards Arafat saying that he should be ashamed of ‘posting rumours online’, focus on studying and serve China when he comes back.) |
Ghulja | October, 2017 | unclear, probably because his son studied abroad | Released early 2019 | An Kazakh family friend who fled to Kazakhstan | His wife Halide Zordon were also detained around March 2018 . His sister Gulnar and Gulchekre (Both of them teacher at public school)were also detained to the camp |
Testimony 1*|2: Arafat Erkin, originally from Ghulja, but now living in the United States. (nephew) | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Ili | — | Oct. 2017 – Dec. 2017 | relative(s) | — | — | — | — | government | ||||||||||
| 5759 | Hawagul Semet | 65292419????????E? | Submission to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances | N/A | Her name is Hawagul Semet. She is from Shayar County, Aksu Prefecture. She is a [government] worker. | [Presumably in Aksu.] | Unknown. | Unknown. | Unknown. | Not Stated. | — | — | F | Uyghur | Aksu | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 5760 | Peridem Ayup | 652924??????????E? | Submission to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances | N/A | Her name is Peridem Ayup. She is from Shayar County, Aksu Prefecture. She is a [government] worker. | [Presumably in Aksu.] | Unknown. | Unknown. | Unknown. | Not Stated. | — | — | F | Uyghur | Aksu | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 5763 | Reyhangul Memet | 65292419????????E? | Submission to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances | N/A | Her name is Reyhangul Memet. She is from Shayar County, Aksu Prefecture. She is a [government] worker. | [Presumably in Aksu.] | Unknown. | Unknown. | Unknown. | Not Stated. | — | — | F | Uyghur | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 5772 | Helil Ayup | 65292419????????O? | Submission to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances | N/A | His name is Helil Ayup. He is a [government] worker. | [Probably in Aksu as the testifier’s other relatives are from Aksu.] | Unknown. | Unknown. | Unknown. | Not Stated. | — | — | M | Uyghur | Aksu | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 5783 | Yasin Ayup | 65????19????????O? | Submission to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances | N/A | His name is Yasin Ayup. He is a [government] worker. | Unknown. | Unknown. | Unknown. | Unknown. | Not Stated. | — | — | M | Uyghur | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 6133 | Tohtomur Metnuri | 托合铁木尔·麦提努日 | 653224198404182237 | Xinjiang government records, as reported by Adrian Zenz. | Tohtomur Metnuri, a cadre. His wife is Mirgulhan Metyusup. The couple’s child is Abduweli Tohtomur. Address: Arish Village, Beshtoghraq Township, Lop County, Hotan Prefecture (洛浦县拜什托格拉克乡阿日希村). |
[Presumably in Hotan.] | Prior to February 2018. | — | Marked as a “special person” (特殊人员), which suggests that the victim is in some sort of detention. | The data was obtained from internal sources in Xinjiang. | — | Xinjiang government records, as reported by Adrian Zenz. | Tohtomur Metnuri, a cadre. His wife is Mirgulhan Metyusup. The couple’s child is Abduweli Tohtomur. Address: Arish Village, Beshtoghraq Township, Lop County, Hotan Prefecture (洛浦县拜什托格拉克乡阿日希村). |
[Presumably in Hotan.] | Prior to February 2018. | — | Marked as a “special person” (特殊人员), which suggests that the victim is in some sort of detention. | The data was obtained from internal sources in Xinjiang. | — | 18-35 | M | Uyghur | Hotan | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||
| 6134 | Mirgulhan Metyusup | 米尔古丽罕·麦提玉苏普 | 653224198512032228 | Xinjiang government records, as reported by Adrian Zenz. | Mirgulhan Metyusup, a cadre. Her husband is Tohtomur Metnuri. The couple’s child is Abduweli Tohtomur. Address: Arish Village, Beshtoghraq Township, Lop County, Hotan Prefecture (洛浦县拜什托格拉克乡阿日希村). |
[Presumably in Hotan.] | Prior to February 2018. | — | Marked as a “special person” (特殊人员), which suggests that the victim is in some sort of detention. | The data was obtained from internal sources in Xinjiang. | — | Xinjiang government records, as reported by Adrian Zenz. | Mirgulhan Metyusup, a cadre. Her husband is Tohtomur Metnuri. The couple’s child is Abduweli Tohtomur. Address: Arish Village, Beshtoghraq Township, Lop County, Hotan Prefecture (洛浦县拜什托格拉克乡阿日希村). |
[Presumably in Hotan.] | Prior to February 2018. | — | Marked as a “special person” (特殊人员), which suggests that the victim is in some sort of detention. | The data was obtained from internal sources in Xinjiang. | — | 18-35 | F | Uyghur | Hotan | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||
| 6228 | Ehmet Esh | 65312819????????O? | Yasin Zunun is from No.4 Neighborhood, No.9 Village, Terim Township, Yupurgha County, Kashgar Prefecture. He was born in 1983. Now he lives abroad. | close friend. | Ehmet Esh is about 48 years old. He is a retired cadre from the Cotton Factory. He is from No.11 Village,Terim Township, Yupurgha County, Kashgar Prefecture. | [Presumably in Kashgar.] | Taken to camp sometime after June 2016. | Unknown. | [Testifier says that he hasn’t received any news of his relatives since 2016.] | Not Stated. | Yasin Zunun’s list of missing/detained relatives: shahit.biz/supp/list_007.pdf | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | no news for over a year | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 6239 | Abdurehim Sadiq | 65312819????????O? | Yasin Zunun is from No.4 Neighborhood, No.9 Village, Terim Township, Yupurgha County, Kashgar Prefecture. He was born in 1983. Now he lives abroad. | close friend. | Abdurihim Sadiq is about 48 years old. He is a retired cadre from Cotton Factory. He is from No.3 Village, Terim Township, Yupurgha County, Kashgar Prefecture. | [Presumably in Kashgar.] | Taken to camp sometime after June 2016. | Unknown. | [Testifier says that he hasn’t received any news of his relatives since 2016.] | Not Stated. | Yasin Zunun’s list of missing/detained relatives: shahit.biz/supp/list_007.pdf | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | no news for over a year | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 6612 | Zulpiqar Ilham | 652801198605170512 | Elishir Ilham, an Uyghur now living outside China. (brother) | His name is Zulpiqar Ilham. He is 33 years old.He graduated from university. He worked at Korla Land Administration Bureau from 2015 to 2017. At the beginning of 2018, he was suddenly fired from his work and taken into the camp. After one year, he was released because of internal organs wound and shortly he died. | [Presumably died in Bayingolin.] | At the beginning of 2018. | Unknown. | He died a short time after his release. | Not Stated. | — | Elishir Ilham, an Uyghur now living outside China. (brother) | 18-35 | M | Uyghur | Bayingolin | concentration camp | Jan. 2018 – Mar. 2018 | — | — | — | — | deceased | government | |||||||||||
| 6614 | Ilham Tomur | 652801195???????O? | Elishir Ilham, an Uyghur now living outside China. (son) | His name is Ilham Tomur. He is 64 and he works at Land Administration Bureau in Korla. | [Presumably in Korla.] | Unknown. | Unknown. | Unknown.The testifier says that when he asks about my father [from relatives], no one answers. | Not Stated. | — | Elishir Ilham, an Uyghur now living outside China. (son) | 55+ | M | Uyghur | Bayingolin | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 6615 | Eli Dawut | 6501??19640713??O? | Ershat Eli, originally from Urumqi but now a Dutch citizen. (son) | His name is Eli Dawut. He was born on the 13th of July 1964 in Urumchi. He was a government worker. | [Presumably in Urumchi.] | On the 21st of April 2018. | Unknown. | He was taken into so-called re-education center. No news till now. | Not Stated. | — | Ershat Eli, originally from Urumqi but now a Dutch citizen. (son) | 55+ | M | Uyghur | Urumqi | no news for over a year | Apr. 2018 – June 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 6618 | Meryemhan Tursun | 买热木汗·吐尔逊 | 652101194701102281 | Testimony 1|2: Melikezat Hebibul, originally from Turpan but now living in Turkey, which she hasn’t left since 2016. Her passport expired in 2018. (daughter) | Her name is Meryemhan Tursun (“Hebibul” in some testimonies). She is 74 years old. She had worked for 6 years in the Post Office. Her pension was stopped in the end of 2016. Address (as on ID, 2014): Group No. 6, Turpanqir Village, Chatqal Township, Turpan City, Xinjiang (新疆吐鲁番市恰特喀勒乡吐鲁番克村6组). |
[Presumably in Turpan.] | On the 11th of June 2017. | Unknown. | The victim was released in January 2019. But the testifier has never contacted her. | Not Stated. | — | Testimony 1|2: Melikezat Hebibul, originally from Turpan but now living in Turkey, which she hasn’t left since 2016. Her passport expired in 2018. (daughter) | 55+ | F | Uyghur | Turpan | — | Apr. 2017 – June 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | government | ||||||||||
| 6620 | Bahargul Hebibul | 巴哈古丽·艾比布 | 652101198304302245 | Testimony 1|2|4: Melikezat Hebibul, originally from Turpan but now living in Turkey, which she hasn’t left since 2016. Her passport expired in 2018. (sister) Testimony 3: Melikezat Hebibul, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (sister) |
Bahargul Hebibul(巴哈古丽·艾比布) is 38 years old. She graduated from Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics (Testimony 4: in 2009). She worked at Railway Telegraph Bureau for 6-7 years (Testimony 4: starting in 2010). She was a Party member. | [Unclear, as sentenced.] | Testimony 1: [Probably in June 2017 because the testifier says that she had a video chat with her mother and sister (not clear which sister; her sister Mihray was taken to the camp in 2018.)] Testimony 2: Taken to camp on June 11, 2017. Two months ago (as of December 2019), the testifier heard that the victim was put on trial, but doesn’t know if she’s since been sentenced or is still in camp. Testimony 3: sentenced to 5 years. Testimony 4: sentenced to 5 years in November 2019. |
According to the testifier, the testifier has been doing wholesale Turkish goods and her Wechat was linked to the victim’s bank account; all of the payments were transferred to the victim’s bank account. In 2016, the victim was questioned for two days because some money from her account was sent to an anonymous person’s account in Turkey and the testifier’s and victim’s $20,000 was frozen. The victim was told that if the testifier comes back, the money will be given back. | Testimony 1: Unclear. No mention of release. Testimony 2: unclear if sentenced or still in camp. Testimony 3: sentenced to 5 years. |
Not Stated. | The testifier has been being asked to come back since May 2017. When she called her father, her father told her if she doesn’t come back, they will take all of the family members to the camp. The testifier has been living in pain and depression since then. RFA coverage (Testimony 3) |
Testimony 1|2|4: Melikezat Hebibul, originally from Turpan but now living in Turkey, which she hasn’t left since 2016. Her passport expired in 2018. (sister) Testimony 3: Melikezat Hebibul, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (sister) |
5 | 35-55 | F | Uyghur | — | sentenced | Apr. 2017 – June 2017 | contact with outside world | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||
| 6789 | Esqer Isaq | 65292419????????O? | Eziz Sulayman, originally from Aksu’s Shayar County but now residing in the United States. (brother-in-law) | Asqar Isaq, 49 years old. He is a government worker and husband of Buharam [likely, Guherem] Sulayman. Address: Shayar county, Aksu prefecture. |
[Presumably in Aksu.] | Unclear | — | Contact lost in June 2016 | Contact lost | — | Eziz Sulayman, originally from Aksu’s Shayar County but now residing in the United States. (brother-in-law) | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Aksu | no news for over a year | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 6790 | Hemdullah Shakir | 65292419????????O? | Eziz Sulayman, originally from Aksu’s Shayar County but now residing in the United States. (nephew) | Hemdullah Shakir, 65 years old. He has retired from governmental work after 30 years of service. Address: Shayar county, Aksu prefecture |
[Presumably in Aksu.] | Unclear | — | Contact lost in June 2016 | Contact lost | — | Eziz Sulayman, originally from Aksu’s Shayar County but now residing in the United States. (nephew) | 55+ | M | Uyghur | Aksu | no news for over a year | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 7089 | Hemit Abdurahman | 65240119540520003X | Testimony 1*|2: Tughluq Hemit, originally from Ghulja but now residing in Stockholm. (son) | خەمىت ئابدۇراھمان 1954-5-20كۈنى غۇلجا شەھىرىدە تۇغۇلغان ،خىزمەت ئورنى ئىلى ئوبلاستلىق تىلگىراف تىن دەم ئىلشقا چىققان 6524024119540520003X سائادەت باۋدۇن 1956-8-21كۈنى غۇلجا شەھىرىدە تۇغۇلغان ،خىزمەت ئورنى ئىلى مىھمانخانىسى قاتناش بۆلۈمدىن دەم ئېلىشقا چىققان 652401195608210027 |
ئاپام دادا ئىككلىسى غۇلجىدكى بوز تۈرمىسىدە | 2017-1-27كۈنى غۇلجا بىخەتەرلىك ئورگانلىرى تەرىپىدىن تۇتۇلۇپ كەتكەن | 2014-يىلى مەن بىلەن تۈركىيەدە كۆرۈشكەنلىك سەۋەبيەنە ئاساسلىقى مىنى چەتئەلدە سىياسى پاناھلىق تىلەپ قىپقالغان سىياسى پائالىيەتلەربىلەن شۇغىللانغان | ئىككىلسى 18يىل كىسۋىتىلگەن ھازىرقى سالامەتلىك ئەھۋالى ناچار كەن | تونۇش بىلىش ئچكىردە خىزمەت قىلۋاتقان ساۋاقدشىم ئارقىلىق | باشقا يوق | Testimony 1*|2: Tughluq Hemit, originally from Ghulja but now residing in Stockholm. (son) | Hemit Abdurahman worked at the Ili regional telecom office prior to his retirement. | In Boz prison. | Taken by the Ghulja public security bureau on January 27, 2017. | Meeting the testifier in Turkey in 2014. The testifier asking for political asylum abroad and being a political activist. | Sentenced to 18 years in prison. His health appears to be quite poor. |
Through former classmates now working in inner China. | — | 18 | 55+ | M | Uyghur | Ili | sentenced | Jan. 2017 – Mar. 2017 | relative(s) | — | — | — | has problems | government | |||
| 7199 | Ablet Tursun | 阿布莱提·图尔荪 | 653125198804083810 | Xinjiang government records, as reported by Adrian Zenz. | Ablet Tursun. He is married with three daughters. Address: House No. 7, Group No. 1, Dongbostan Village, Azatbagh Municipality, Yeken County, Kashgar Prefecture (莎车县阿扎提巴格镇墩吾斯塘村1组7号). |
[Most likely in Kashgar.] | Prior to December 2018. | — | Marked as belonging to the “three kinds of people” (三类人员), which suggests that the victim is in some sort of detention. | The data was obtained from internal sources in Xinjiang. | — | Xinjiang government records, as reported by Adrian Zenz. | Ablet Tursun was a deputy township head (副乡长). He is married with three daughters. Address: House No. 7, Group No. 1, Dong’osteng Village, Azatbagh Municipality, Yeken County, Kashgar Prefecture (莎车县阿扎提巴格镇墩吾斯塘村1组7号). |
[Most likely in Kashgar.] | Prior to December 2018. | — | Marked as belonging to the “three kinds of people” (三类人员), which suggests that the victim is in some sort of detention. | The data was obtained from internal sources in Xinjiang. | — | 18-35 | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | unclear (hard) | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||
| 7239 | Suriye Tursun | 65402319????????E? | Testimony 1: Jewlan Shirmemet, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (son) Testimony 2: Jewlan Shirmemet, originally from Qorghas County, but now living in Turkey. (son) Testimony 3: Jewlan Shirmemet, as reported by Daily Express. (son) |
Suriye Tursun is 56 years old. She was an employee of Management Office of Trade and Industry in Qorghas County. She came to Turkey with a Chinese tour group in 2013 to see her son and his university and traveled for 15 days and went back. | [Unclear, as sentenced.] | Detained at the beginning of 2018. Sentenced in early 2019. | Testimony 1: Allegedly for “having looked down on the Chinese education system”. Testimony 3: for visiting her son during his studies in Turkey. |
In prison. The victim was sentenced for 5 years in prison. Testimony 3: she is not in good health, according to her son. |
Not Stated. | RFA coverage (Testimony 1) Daily Express coverage (Testimony 3) |
Testimony 1: Jewlan Shirmemet, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (son) Testimony 2: Jewlan Shirmemet, originally from Qorghas County, but now living in Turkey. (son) Testimony 3: Jewlan Shirmemet, as reported by Daily Express. (son) |
Suriye Tursun was an employee of the Management Office of Trade and Industry in Qorghas County. In 2013, she visited Turkey with a Chinese tour group, to see her son and his university, travelling for 15 days and going back. |
[Unclear, as sentenced.] | Suriye was detained at the beginning of 2018 and sentenced in early 2019. [Exact dates unclear.] | According to the Radio Free Asia report, she was allegedly detained for “having looked down on the Chinese education system”. However, in the interview to the Daily Express, Jewlan says that it was for her visiting him while he was studying in Turkey. [It’s likely that the former is the official reason, while the latter is the actual.] |
Currently in prison, presumably serving a 5-year sentence. According to her son, she is not in good health. |
Not stated. | RFA coverage Crimean News Agency (Turkey) coverage Daily Express coverage |
5 | 55+ | F | Uyghur | — | sentenced | Jan. 2018 – Mar. 2018 | related to going abroad | other | — | — | has problems | government | |||
| 7240 | Shirmemet Hudayar | 65402319????????O? | Testimony 1: Jewlan Shirmemet, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (son) Testimony 2: Jewlan Shirmemet, originally from Qorghas County, but now living in Turkey. (son) Testimony 3: Jewlan Shirmemet, as reported by Daily Express. (son) |
Shirmemet Hudayar was an employee of the Environmental Protection Office in Qorghas County. | [Presumably in ili.] | At the beginning of 2018. | Testimony 3: having a son who studies in Turkey. | He was released at the end of 2019 due to heavy illness. | Not Stated. | The victim’s health condition hasn’t been very good for a long time and he has rheumatism. RFA coverage (Testimony 1) Daily Express coverage (Testimony 3) |
Testimony 1: Jewlan Shirmemet, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (son) Testimony 2: Jewlan Shirmemet, originally from Qorghas County, but now living in Turkey. (son) Testimony 3: Jewlan Shirmemet, as reported by Daily Express. (son) |
— | M | Uyghur | Ili | unclear (soft) | Jan. 2018 – Mar. 2018 | relative(s) | — | — | — | has problems | government | |||||||||||
| 7745 | Enwer Tursun | 艾尼瓦尔·吐尔逊 | 6532??196605????O? | Testimony 1: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party. Testimony 2: Local government employee, as reported by South China Morning Post. |
Enwer Tursun (艾尼瓦尔·吐尔逊), born in May 1966, from Hotan, a CCP member since September 1993. He has worked in various government jobs in Kasghar region, Yengisar county (英吉沙县) and Konasheher county (疏附县). He was deputy major of Kashgar (February 2001 – August 2007), deputy secretary of Kashgar City Party Committee and acting major of Kashgar City (June 2013 – January 2014), deputy secretary of Kashgar City Party Committee and major of Kashgar City (January 2014 – January 2016). He has been the deputy secretary-general of Xinjiang’s People Congress since March 2017. |
— | unknown, his investigation was made public on 30 July 2019 on the official webpage of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection | 1. according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for being suspected of “seriously violating the law and Party discipline” (涉嫌严重违纪违法). 2. according to a “Xinjiang cadre” quoted by SCMP for being “two-faced”: “[Tursun’s] downfall is the result of a crackdown of what the authorities called ‘two-faced men’,” a Xinjiang cadre said […] “Besides being corrupt, the leaders believed he was not firm in carrying out policies on ethnic minorities and religions when he was the mayor and head of the Kashgar’s united front work department,” the cadre said. |
according to a note dated 30 July 2019 on the official webpage of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Enwer Tursun is subject to disciplinary review and supervision investigation by the Xinjiang Commission for Discipline Inspection. | The CCDI has direct knowledge of the people it disciplines. | investigation notice by the CCDI (Testimony 1) (http://archive.is/bZt1B) international news coverage of his investigation: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3020608/chinas-anti-corruption-body-investigates-high-level-official (Testimony 2) (published 30 JUL 2019) https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/china-defends-controversial-education-centres-uighurs-190730053648154.html (31 JUL 2019) article from 2014 in which Enwer Tursun is quoted in his position as the mayor of Kashgar talking about the New Silk Road (http://archive.is/SKBt2) |
Testimony 1: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party. Testimony 2: Local government employee, as reported by South China Morning Post. |
35-55 | M | Uyghur | — | — | — | — | breach of Party discipline | two-faced | corruption | — | government | ||||||||||
| 8199 | Memet Abdulla | Testimony 1: Iskender Memet, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (son) Testimony 2: Subhi Memet, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (daughter) |
Mehmet Abdulla is 72 years old. He was mayor of Bayin’gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture’s Korla (Kuerle) city and led an administrative unit for the Tarim basin from 1983-1993. He served as head of XUAR’s State Forestry and Grassland Administration from 1992 until he retired in 2008. | [Unclear, as sentenced.] | In 2017, victim received permission from the Chinese government to travel to the US in April of 2017 because his son had had a child. He had traveled to the US, where his son and daughter live, several times before. He had an airline ticket for April 30 or May 1. On April 29, 2017 detained, charged May 2017. Convicted in September 2019. Appealed but it was rejected in December 2019, handed a life sentence. Forced to hand over all assets to the state and his family was fined 4 million yuan. Court proceedings in September 2019 were closed to family members except for victim’s eldest daughter. In December 2019, only lawyer was present in court and alerted the family of the verdict. As of February, victim’s US-based son has not been able to secure official documentation confirming his father’s life sentence. |
“Being two faced” and “having designs on splitting up the country” | Serving life sentence in prison. He has health issues: he suffers from high blood sugar and high blood pressure, previously had kidney cancer. |
From the victim’s daughter, who attended the trial. | RFA report (Testimony 1-2) | Testimony 1: Iskender Memet, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (son) Testimony 2: Subhi Memet, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (daughter) |
100 | 55+ | M | Uyghur | — | sentenced | Apr. 2017 – June 2017 | — | two-faced | separatism | — | has problems | government | |||||||||||
| 8201 | Ablikim Mettursun | 65322419????????O? | Testimony 1: Anonymous, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (relation unclear) Testimony 2: Local government employee, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. |
His name is Ablikim Mettursun. He was CCP Member and Chief of Sampul Township, Lop County, Hoten Prefecture. According to the news source, he was highly educated and has 20 years of working history. | In Keriye County, Hoten Prefecture as he is serving his sentence in Keriye prison. | In 2015. | Taking a criminal under his wing/ Turning a blind eye to an “illegal book”/ | In Keriye prison. He is serving his 7 years sentence there. | Testimony 1: A person familiar with the situation in Hotan sent a message to RFA, alleging that Ablikim Mattursun was sentenced for 7 years in prison as he and another cadre turned a blind eye to a so-called “illegal religious book” found in a house during a house search. It is not clear how they knew this, but the information was later corroborated through phone interviews with Lop County Government and United Front Officials. A judicial officer of Lop County confirmed that the victim was punished during the phone interview. According to him, the victim and other cadre were sentenced for 7 years in prison in the middle of 2015. Testimony 2: The judicial officer would presumably have direct access to information concerning the case, or have direct knowledge of it given his position. |
The victim was among the house search team in 2012, in Lop County. A book about the rules of Hajj was found during the search in a house in Sampul Township. Since the Hajj pilgrimage was allowed to some extent at that time and the government was also organizing a Hajj delegation, the staff of the investigation team did not consider the book to be an “illegal book”. Ablikim Mattursun told the search team that there were no sensitive topics in the content of the book and told them to return the book to the landlord. Later, in 2015, there was another house search in this Township and the Han Chinese Head of the house search team conducted a special search into the above-mentioned house and asked the landlord to hand over the book. It was handed over by the landlord and confiscated, consider as “illegal religious material that promotes religious extremism”. So, the head of the team in 2012, Ablikim Mattursun, who did not collect the book and reported it to the government, was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of “taking the convict under his wing”. RFA coverage (Testimony 1-2) (English-language version) |
Testimony 1: Anonymous, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (relation unclear) Testimony 2: Local government employee, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. |
7 | — | M | Uyghur | Hotan | sentenced | before 2017 | — | assisting “criminals” | — | — | — | government | ||||||||||
| 8202 | Memeteziz Mettohti | 65322419????????O? | Testimony 1: Anonymous, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (relation unclear) Testimony 2: Local government employee, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. |
His name is Memeteziz Mettohti.He was CCP Member and a cadre of the United Front in Sampul Township, Lop County, Hoten Prefecture. According to the news source, he was highly educated and has 25 years of working history. | In Keriye County, Hoten Prefecture as he is serving his sentence in Keriye prison. | In 2015. | Taking a criminal under his wing/ Turning a blind eye to an “illegal book”/ | In Keriye prison. He is serving his 7 years sentence there. | Testimony 1: A person familiar with the situation in Hotan sent a message to RFA, alleging that Ablikim Mattursun was sentenced for 7 years in prison as he and another cadre turned a blind eye to a so-called “illegal religious book” found in a house during a house search. It is not clear how they knew this, but the information was later corroborated through phone interviews with Lop County Government and United Front Officials. A judicial officer of Lop County confirmed that the victim was punished during the phone interview. According to him, the victim and other cadre were sentenced for 7 years in prison in the middle of 2015. Testimony 2: The judicial officer would presumably have direct access to information concerning the case, or have direct knowledge of it given his position. |
The victim was among the house search team in 2012, in Lop County. A book about the rules of Hajj was found during the search in a house in Sampul Township. Since the Hajj pilgrimage was allowed to some extent at that time and the government was also organizing a Hajj delegation, the staff of the investigation team did not consider the book to be an “illegal book”. Ablikim Mattursun, the head of the team as well as Sampul Township told the search team that there were no sensitive topics in the content of the book and told them to return the book to the landlord. Later, in 2015, there was another house search in this Township and the Han Chinese Head of the house search team conducted a special search into the above-mentioned house and asked the landlord to hand over the book. It was handed over by the landlord and confiscated, consider as “illegal religious material that promotes religious extremism”. So, the victim, Memeteziz Mettohti, who was among the team in 2012, was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of “taking the convict under his wing”. RFA coverage (Testimony 1-2) English-language version |
Testimony 1: Anonymous, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (relation unclear) Testimony 2: Local government employee, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. |
7 | — | M | Uyghur | Hotan | sentenced | before 2017 | — | assisting “criminals” | — | — | — | government | ||||||||||
| 8461 | Ershidin Osman | 652929197010????O? | Amine Osman, originally from Aksu’s Kelpin County, but now a resident of Sweden. (sister) | His name is Ershidin Osman. He was born in October 1970. He graduated from university and used to work in the Bureau of Civil Affairs in Kelpin County, Aksu Prefecture. He has got four children. | [Unclear as he was reportedly sentenced.] | In the end of 2017. | According to the testifier, the victim was detained on the charge of having a child against family planning policy. | Unclear. However, the testifier says that the victim was sentenced and she doesn’t know how long he was sentenced. | Not Stated. | The victim’s wife was also detained and sentenced, according to the testifier, and their four children are left without anyone who looks after them. | Amine Osman, originally from Aksu’s Kelpin County, but now a resident of Sweden. (sister) | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | — | sentenced | Oct. 2017 – Dec. 2017 | — | violating birth policies | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 8479 | Abdukerim Gheni | 65292719????????O? | Abdurehim Gheni, an Uyghur activist famous for his solo protests in Amsterdam. (brother) | His name is Abdukirim Gheni. He is 39 years old and he is a cadre of the Conservancy Bureau of Uchturpan County. He has a son. | [Presumably in Aksu.] | Unknown. | Unknown. | Unknown. The testifier has completely lost contact with the victim since the 23rd of May 2017 so he doesn’t know if the victim is still alive, or in the camps, or in prison. | He hasn’t been able to contact the victim. | In July 2018, the testifier wrote to the King of Netherlands Willem Alexander, Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok, asking them to help him inquire about his family members. They replied to him that his request had been entrusted to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. But there isn’t any news about his family. In June 2019, again, he wrote to Minister of Foreign Affairs of Netherlands, asking them to help him enquire about his family in diplomatic ways and they replied to him in July 2019, informing him that they had contacted the Embassy in China; asked them about his family, and they were asking about Chinese spelling of his family members’ names. He sent them what he was asked in the letter. He waited for three months and there was no reply from the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He wrote them again. He got a reply from them in November 2019 that read, we have contacted China’s Embassy, but they haven’t replied yet; we will get back to you when the Chinese Embassy replies to us. He hasn’t been replied back; the Chinese Embassy hasn’t responded yet. | Abdurehim Gheni, an Uyghur activist famous for his solo protests in Amsterdam. (brother) | 35-55 | M | Uyghur | Aksu | no news for over a year | — | — | — | — | — | — | government | |||||||||||
| 8564 | Ekber Ghopur | 艾克拜尔·吾甫尔 | 6529??195901????O? | Testimony 1|3: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party. Testimony 2: Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the highest national level agency responsible for both prosecution and investigation in the People’s Republic of China. |
Ekber Ghopur (艾克拜尔·吾甫尔), born January 1959 in Aksu. He joined the CCP ranks in 1987 and worked in various departments of Aksu city, Wensu county and Kashgar, before being appointed Head of Xinjiang’s Agricultural Department in March 2017. He retired in January 2017. | [Presumably in Urumqi, as this he is being prosecuted by the Urumqi Procuratorate.] | His investigation for ‘serious disciplinary violations’ started on August 26, 2019 (Testimony 1). On April 1, 2020, a decision regarding his arrest was published (Testimony 2). On April 7, the CCP’s regional government branch was stripped Ekber of his Party membership, citing a ‘lack of political know-how’ and accusing him of taking bribes, embezzlement and nepotism (Testimony 3). | Testimony 1: breaching Party discipline and the law Testimony 2: accepting bribes Testimony 3: accepting bribes, embezzlement, nepotism |
Detained | Testimony 1-3: these are the government bodies in charge of investigating and prosecuting the victim | Initial investigation notice (Testimony 1) Formal arrest announcement (Testimony 2) Announcement of his expulsion from the Party (Testimony 3) His Baike Baidu South China Morning Post coverage |
Testimony 1|3: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party. Testimony 2: Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the highest national level agency responsible for both prosecution and investigation in the People’s Republic of China. |
55+ | M | Uyghur | Urumqi | — | July 2019 – Sep. 2019 | — | breach of Party discipline | taking bribes | — | — | government | ||||||||||
| 8766 | Alimjan Memetimin | 阿力木江·买买提明 | 652825195910????O? | Testimony 1|2: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party. Testimony 3: Yasin Sidiq, the mayor of Urumqi. Testimony 4: Memet’imin Bekri, the deputy commissioner of the Kashgar regional administration office. |
Alimjan Memetimin (阿力木江-买买提明), born October 1959. Former Secretary of Party Member’s Group of the General Office of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region People’s Government (自治区人民政府办公厅党组书记). | [Presumably in Urumqi, as that is where he was based.] | Investigation officially started on June 28, 2015 (Testimony 1). Alimjan was stripped of his Party membership on February 28, 2016 (Testimony 2). There has been no news since. | Testimony 1: ‘Serious disciplinary violations’ – a euphemism for corruption. Testimony 2: a number of accusations, generally related to corruption. Testimony 3: However, Urumqi mayor’s Yasin Sidiq’s (牙生·司地克) article “Uyghurs are not the descendants of Turks” (维吾尔族不是突厥人后裔) make it clear that Alimjan Memetimin’s case was widely known among the cadres as an example of a “two-faced” person who had been assisting “separatist forces” by “distorting historical facts”. Testimony 3-4: he is listed together with Sattar Sawut and Abdurazaq Sayim as a making up the “two-faced” officials who were plotting separatism. |
Detained | Testimony 1-3: these are all Chinese government sources. | Original investigation announcement (Testimony 1) Announcement of victim being stripped of Party membership (Testimony 2) Yasin Sidiq’s article (Testimony 3) (http://archive.ph/wip/Kj98W) Memet’imin Bekri’s article (Testimony 4) His Baidu Baike South China Morning Post mention |
Testimony 1|2: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party. Testimony 3: Yasin Sidiq, the mayor of Urumqi. Testimony 4: Memet’imin Bekri, the deputy commissioner of the Kashgar regional administration office. |
55+ | M | Uyghur | Urumqi | — | before 2017 | — | breach of Party discipline | corruption | two-faced | — | government | ||||||||||
| 9044 | Muhter Emet | 65312119????????O? | Abduweli Ayup, a language activist, linguist, and writer, originally from Kashgar but now residing in Norway. (from same town/region) | Muhter Emet, a poet and vice-chairman of the Konasheher county’s CCP branch. Address: Konasheher (Shufu) county, Kashgar prefecture |
[Presumably in Kashgar.] | Sep-17 | Unclear | Detained | Not stated | The victim is included in the list of prominent detained Uyghurs, available at here. | Abduweli Ayup, a language activist, linguist, and writer, originally from Kashgar but now residing in Norway. (from same town/region) | — | M | Uyghur | Kashgar | unclear (hard) | July 2017 – Sep. 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | government |
