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Ayshem Ehmet
Uyghur advocacy

Who is Ayshem Ehmet

Ayshem Ehmet, a talented Uyghur female writer and journalist, was reportedly detained in 2016 and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Unfortunately, there is no

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Zulpiqar Barat Ozbash
Uyghur advocacy

Who is Zulpiqar Barat Ozbash

Zulpiqar Barat Ozbash is an intellectual from the Uyghur community who has been imprisoned since 2018. He is a sociologist and a professor at Xinjiang

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Yalqun Rozi
Uyghur advocacy

Who is Yalqun Rozi

Yalqun Rozi (يالقۇن روزى, 亚力坤·肉孜, 牙里坤·肉孜) was one of the primary targets during the Chinese government’s war against the Uyghurs, which began in May 2014.

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Omerjan Nuri
Uyghur advocacy

Who is Omerjan Nuri

Omerjan Nuri is one of the Uyghur intellectuals who has been imprisoned since 2016. He was arrested on March 10, 2017, and sentenced to life

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Mahumut Yolwas
Uyghur advocacy

Who is Mahmut Yolwas

Mahmut Yolwas, a writer born in 1970 in Ili, a prefecture in the north of East Turkistan, was arrested in China in 2017. He was

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Gheni Semet With Tahir Hamut Izgil
Uyghur advocacy

Who is Gheni Semet

Gheni Semet is one of the imprisoned poets since 2017, and since then, there has been no news about him. His poems are still popular

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Perhat Tursun
Uyghur advocacy

Who is Perhat Tursun

Perhat Tursun is an Uyghur poet and author born in 1969 in Atush, which is about 20 km away from Kashgar. He studied at the

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Adil Tuniyaz
Uyghur advocacy

Who is Adil Tuniyaz

Adil Tuniyaz, a well-known intellectual, was arrested in December 2017 and his prison term is unknown. There are varying reports on the duration of his

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Tursunay Sultan
Uyghur advocacy

Who is Tursunay Sultan

Tursunay Sultan is a renowned internet writer, known by her online alias Bergiye.  She was deprived of her creative freedom at the end of 2017

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