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Saadet Bawdun
Saadet Bawdun
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Age
63
Gender
F
Ethnicity
Uyghur
Profession
corporate work
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
(work/study)
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

Sa'adet Bawdun worked at the transportation department of the Ili Hotel prior to her retirement.

current location

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

chronology of detention(s)

Taken on January 27, 2017 by the Ghulja public security bureau. She was sentenced to 18 years 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.

She is not in good health, and the testifier heard that she has gotten sick while in prison.

how testifier(s) learned of victim's situation

Tughluq learned about it from friends 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

According to Tughluq, her WeChat account and phone number are no longer active.

relatives


places of detention


Ghulja City Detention Center

supplementary materials

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


entry created on: 2020-02-02

entry last modified on: 2021-05-21

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