testifying party

Mukaddes, lives in Turkey.

[this testimony has been supplemented with info from a testimony event held in early 2019]

victim's relation to testifier

cousin

about the victim

Erpat Ablekrem, male, uyghur, 25 (Feb,1994), from Ghulja (yi ning), a professional football player.

[Chinese name: 艾尔帕提·阿不来克热木
Address: Dong Mehelle (墩买里社区), Ghulja]

[longer bio sent directly by testifier:

Erpat Ablekrem (Aierpati Abulaikeremu), male, Uyghur, 25 (born in Feb, 1994), from Ghulja (Yining), professional football player. Erpart started to play football at a very early age and joined Ghulja No.16 Primary School football team. At the age of 10 (in 2004) he was selected by Ghulja Elementary School Children Team to play in Hope Cup National Football Match for Elementary School Children in Shandong. Since then, he had become an important part of his school teams as goalkeeper. Apart from that, he played for a number of professional sports teams and clubs, such as Cholpan football Team, Ili Star Sports Clup, Ghulja No.1 football Team, Ghulja Qarghay football Team, Shandong Luneng Taishan Football School Club until he was taken to concentration camp in march, 2018.

Some of the football matches he played with his teams:
2004, Hope Cup National Football Match for Elementary School Children, Shandong, China
August 2010, the 12th Regional Football Match, Urumqi, Xinjiang
2012, National Youth U17 League Match, Shandong, China
2012, Turpan Agricultural Cup, Turpan, Xinjiang
2012, the 12th Unity Cup Football Match, Turpan, Xinjiang
2013, China Mobile Cup Xinjiang Youth League Match, Urumqi, Xinjiang (His team won Silver Medal)]

current location

Ghulja

chronology of detention(s)

March, 2018

suspected and/or official reason(s) for detention

contacting with outside world

last reported status

in concentration camp

[update at the end of July 2019: released, judging from WeChat activity]

how testifier(s) learned of victim's situation

from a friend

additional information

[RFA coverage of his case: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/footballer-01152019172111.html]

[His name is mentioned in the list of students who took a football gaokao exam:
http://www.3773.com.cn/gaokao/XJ/1651012.shtml]

supplementary materials

entry created on: 2019-01-05

entry last modified on: 2019-09-20

last update from testifier(s): 2019-07-29