Testimony 1: Abdulla Rusul, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (cousin-in-law)
Testimony 2: China Daily, an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and published in the People's Republic of China.
Testimony 3: Abdulla Rusul, now living in Istanbul, Turkey. (cousin-in-law)
Testimony 1:
Testimony 2:
Testimony 3:
Testimony 4:
Halinur Haliq has a high-school education and speaks excellent Chinese.
Address: Chimenzarliq Neighborhood, Buyluq Township, Turpan City.Her name is Halinur Haliq. She is 23 years old. She is from Chimenzarliq Neighborhood, Boyuluq Township, Turpan City. She is a high school graduate. Her Chinese was excellent in high school.
current location
[Presumably in Turpan.]In Turpan.
chronology of detention(s)
Unclear - Abdulla says that he lost contact with Halinur in 2017.
According to the state-media interview, Halinur went to the "training center" in 2018, and "graduated" in May 2019.Unknown. The testifier has been out of contact with the victim since 2017.
suspected and/or official reason(s) for detention
In her interview to state media, Halinur said she was "influenced by religious extremism" in high school, causing her to drop out of school (Abdulla says that this is false and that she graduated). This "religious extremism", she claims, is why she attended the "training center".
In her video interview with CGTN, she says that she wore a burqa (Abdulla says that it was a common headscarf).The CGTN report suggests that it was because she had worn a burqa.
last reported status
According to state media, she is now working at a restaurant in Turpan.According to the CGTN [propaganda] report, she is working in a restaurant in Turpan City.
how testifier(s) learned of victim's situation
Abdulla presumably reported her disappearance because he couldn't contact her.
The news about her time in the "training center" and thereafter came from state media, who have direct access to the people and the region [it is not clear how much of what is reported is true].From CGTN report. The testifier testified for her with the Hashtag StillnoInfo and CGTN tried to refute Abdulla's testimony by interviewing the victim.
additional information
According to Abdulla, Halinur's husband Abduqadir was arrested in 2015 and sentenced to 5-10 years in prison.
Radio Free Asia report: https://www.rfa.org/uyghur/xewerler/CGTN-12312019173534.htmlCGTN tried to refute Abdulla's testimony, blaming him for lying. Halnur finished high school. Her Chinese was excellent at that time. In the interview with CGNT, she mentioned that she stopped high school, having listened to her aunt and wore "Burqa" against Chinese law. (the testifier says that she wear a common headscarf). Halnur's husband Abduqadir was arrested in 2015 and sentenced for 5- 10 years in prison.
By Cui Jia in Beijing and Mao Weihua in Turpan, Xinjiang
Source: China Daily
Updated: 2019-12-27 01:30
Halnur Halik said she was furious after learning her personal information was used in an online campaign to "find missing Uygurs in China" while she had been busy working toward a better life in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Some individuals, overseas organizations and media have been posting photos and names of allegedly missing Uygurs on social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook, to smear China's policy in Xinjiang.
Many of the posts have been shown to have "distorted the truth or be fabricated stories", Xu Guixiang, deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee, said on Wednesday.
On Dec 12, Twitter user Abdulla Rasul wrote in a post tagged "StillNoinfo" that Halnur, 24, a mother of two, was among those still missing, even though Halnur has been working as a waitress at a restaurant in Turpan since May.
Abdulla Rasul is her cousin's husband and the couple moved abroad many years ago, Halnur said. Abdulla's Twitter account says he is based in Istanbul, Turkey. "I only met Abdulla once, when he and my cousin got married, and seldom have had contact with them since. I don't understand why he said I was missing," she said on Wednesday.
Halnur attended a vocational education and training center in 2018 after having been influenced by thoughts of religious extremism since high school. "I dropped out of my school, although I was a very good student, because the religious extremists told me that going to school was useless. Later, I also refused to go to work and focused only on taking part in religious extremist activities," she said.
The establishment of the centers in Xinjiang has been an effective preventive measure to help eradicate extremism in the region, which is believed to have led in the past to frequent terrorist attacks in Xinjiang, officials said. The centers provided courses on standard Chinese language, laws, vocational skills and deradicalization programs.
People who took part in the courses have all graduated. The centers will be open to all local residents and officials who wish to improve their standard Chinese language and vocational skills and legal knowledge, Shohrat Zakir, regional government chairman, said this month.
"I was worried about whether people would be willing to give me a second chance after I graduated, but a restaurant owner immediately recruited me after I graduated from the center in May," said Halnur.
