testifying party

H.

victim's relation to testifier

information publicly available

about the victim

name: Hayrigul Aimaier
gender: female
ethnicity: Uyghur
age: 42
home village: Biz'eriq in Maralbeshi (Bachu) county, Siriqbuy (Selibuya) township
occupation: housewife

Hayrigul was arrested in the middle of January 2016 in Tianjin where she had been living since relocating from Kashgar 10 years ago. She travelled with her husband to her home village passport Biz'eriq in Maralbeshi (Bachu) county, XUAR in 2015 and applied for a passport. She was suddenly arrested in Tianjin in January 2016 and several of her family members were detained as well. She was accused of having attempted to flee the country/illegally crossing the border/helping other Uyghurs to leave the country illegally. When she was arrested she had strong stomach pain from stomach cancer. She was transferred from a detention facility to a prison in Urumchi on 22 January 2016. She was finally released on 16 February 2016, but immediately transferred to a hospital where she died soon after due to her stomach cancer.
According to her husband Zhang Long (also Steven Long), a Hui, she died because her stomach cancer worsened and was left untreated while in detention. Her body was sent to Tianjin where she was burried.

(The exact dates slightly vary in both reports.)

current location

Tianjin

chronology of detention(s)

January 2016

suspected and/or official reason(s) for detention

having attempted to flee the country/illegally crossing the border/helping other Uyghurs to leave the country illegally

last reported status

deceased

how testifier(s) learned of victim's situation

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/death-12122017164350.html (published 12 DEC 2017) https://extranewsfeed.com/china-murdered-my-uyghur-muslim-wife-and-now-they-re-coming-for-me-ff94543bad09 (published 2 MAR 2018)

additional information

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supplementary materials

entry created on: 2019-01-31

entry last modified on: 2019-01-31

last update from testifier(s): 2019-01-31