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Hemit Abdurahman
Hemit Abdurahman
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Age
65
Gender
M
Ethnicity
Uyghur
Profession
government
Likely place of origin
Ghulja City
Likely current location
Ili
Status
sentenced (2020, 18 y)
When problems started
Jan. 2017 - Mar. 2017
Detention reason (suspected | official)
relative(s) | ---
Health status
has problems
Lists
Local media coverage  From prolonged detention to prison  Entries mentioning specific police detention centers  Urumqi Public Security Bureau files 
Locality
(relative)
2020-03-29

police tag(s): "intelligence national-security focus person" (情报国保重点人员)

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testifying party (* direct submission)

Testimony 1*|2: Tughluq Hemit, originally from Ghulja but now residing in Stockholm. (son)

Testimony 3: Urumqi police records, as reported by Yael Grauer.

Testimony 4: Tughluq Hemit, as reported by Radio Free Asia Mandarin. (son)

Testimony 5: Rights Protection Network (维权网), a Chinese blog covering rights abuses in China.

about the victim

Hemit Abdurahman worked at the Ili regional telecom office prior to his retirement.

current location

In "Boz prison" [Ghulja City Pre-Trial Detention Center].

chronology of detention(s)

Taken by the Ghulja public security bureau on January 27, 2017. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison in January 2020.

suspected and/or official reason(s) for detention

Meeting the testifier in Turkey in 2014. The testifier asking for political asylum abroad and being a political activist.

last reported status

Sentenced, with release scheduled for January 26, 2035.

His health appears to be quite poor.

how testifier(s) learned of victim's situation

Tughluq learned about it through former classmates now working in inner China.

additional information

Radio Free Asia coverage: https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shaoshuminzu/ql1-01102020072341.html

Rights Protection Network coverage: https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2020/03/18.html

relatives


places of detention


Ghulja City Detention Center

supplementary materials

Testimony 2
photo with son
Boz facility mention
family photo
photo with wife


entry created on: 2020-02-02

entry last modified on: 2021-05-21

last update from testifier(s): 2020-03-29