Medium: Internet Charge: Anti-State Imprisoned: July 14, 2009 Imin was one of several administrators of Uighur-language Web forums who were arrested after the July 2009 riots in Urumqi, in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Uighur Autonomous Region. In August 2010, Imin was sentenced to life in prison on charges of separatism, leaking state secrets, and organizing an…
Medium:Internet Charge:Anti-State Imprisoned:July 2009 Abdulla, editor of the state-run China National Radio Uighur service, was detained in July 2009 and accused of instigating ethnic rioting in the Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Uighur Autonomous Region through postings on the Uighur-language website Salkin, which he managed in his spare time, according to international news reports. A court in the…
Medium:Internet Charge:Anti-State Imprisoned:July 2009 Kahar, a reporter and blogger, disappeared during ethnic rioting in Urumqi in July 2009. His family announced in February 2014 that he had been convicted of separatism and was being held in Shikho prison outside Shikho city in the far north of Xinjiang (East Turkistan), according to the Uighur service of…
Sentenced in 2008 to life imprisonment; charges unknown. According to the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), authorities in East Turkestan detained Adil Qarim, an imam at a mosque in Kucha county, Aqsu district, during a “security sweep” of Kucha in the aftermath of a reported series of bomb attacks in the county on 10 August…
Medium:Internet, Radio Charge:Anti-State Imprisoned:February 28, 2008 On two occasions in November 2007, Ekberjan used his cell phone to record sounds of riots in his home town of Turpan. The audio files, which included the noise of rioters, sirens, and a voice-over of Ekberjan describing what was happening, were sent to friends in the Netherlands, and…
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,…