Sentenced in November 2001 to 20 years and 5 years deprivation of political rights for “splittism”.
On 16 February 2000, authorities in Aqsu district, East Turkestan, detained Abduhelil Zunun, who is reported to have translated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the Uyghur language, for splittism and for illegally producing or trafficking weapons, ammunition, or explosives, crimes under articles 103 and 125 of the Criminal Law. On 5 November 2001, the Aqsu District Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Abduhelil Zunun to 20 years in prison and 5 years deprivation of political rights. He is serving his sentence at the Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Number 1 Prison.
Sources:
Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV), Kein Freibrief für Menschenrechtsverletzungen an Uiguren, Tibetern und Falun Gong-Anhängern, Dezember 2001, available at:http://peuples-menacés.ch/pdf/02-02-032.pdf
U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Entry for “Abduhelil Zunun” in Political Prisoner Database (CECC Record Number: 2005-00287), available at: http://ppd.cecc.gov/QueryResultsDetail.aspx?PrisonerNum=5796
Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), World Human Rights Day – Remember Abduhelil Zunun, 9 December 2005, available at: http://www.uhrp.org/articles/90/1/World-Human-Rights-Day–Remember-Abduhelil-Zunun/World-Human-Rights-Day–Remember-Abduhelil-Zunun.html
[Last updated: August 2011]