testifying party (submitted by third party)

Testimony 1-7: Margulan Baiturghan, lives in Kazakhstan with his father and brother. Kazakhstan citizen.

DOB: April 11, 1999.

victim's relation to testifier

Testimony 1-7: Mother

about the victim

Senya Sawutkhan (沙尼娅*沙吾阿提汗). Kazakh, born on March 6, 1963. Expired passport no. G20357472. Lives in Gongliu county, Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture. Works in the Family Planning Office. Has Kazakhstan’s Green Card. As the family sold all their property before moving to Kazakhstan, she has not got a permanent living place.

Victim’s address: Fifth West Alley 31, North Xingfu Road, Gongliu county-seat, Gongliu county, Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture

Kazakhstan Green Card: 026766252

current location

In Kazakhstan.

chronology of detention(s)

Not detained. On 10 August, 2017, the county authorities asked her to go back to China from Kazakhstan, and when she did, they confiscated her passport and Green Card.

suspected and/or official reason(s) for detention

Unclear

last reported status

Suffers from asthma, thyroiditis and nephritis.

She called her family in Kazakhstan on December 29, 2018 around 8 o'clock in the morning. According to Margulan, she was terrified and was almost in tears when she phoned. She called them under the supervision of the local police, because at 6 am on the same day they had uploaded their video appeal online. There were several short phone calls, the shortest lasting 7 seconds and the longest 57. They managed to record only one phone call, where Sania talks to her husband and begs him to get their sons to stop appealing.

(Margulan had started his appealing on August 6, 2018. 6 days after his appeal, the local police phoned his mother and promised to issue her a new passport soon, as her passport was expiring on April 20, 2018. However, she couldn't get a passport until now. She was told to get 15 stamps from different government bodies, but she couldn't get the 15th and failed to have a new passport issued.

Testimony 4: in February, the police again had said that she could now get a passport issued, but this turned out to be a false promise.

Testimony 5: She has finally received her passport.

Testimony 6: She has returned to Kazakhstan (early March 2019, most likely).

how testifier(s) learned of victim's situation

Unclear

additional information

Testimony 7: the victim told the testifier that all their calls (between Xinjiang and Kazakhstan) would have to be monitored by a police officer.

supplementary materials

entry created on: 2018-11-14

entry last modified on: 2018-11-14

last update from testifier(s): 2019-03-05