testifying party (submitted by third party)

Testimony 1+4+5+6: Baqytnur Zhunis, born on February 2, 1977, moved to Kazakhstan on August 10, 2017.

Testimony 1-4: Aiman Baqytnur

victim's relation to testifier

Testimony 1+4+5+6: spouse

Testimony 1-4: mother

about the victim

Ersingul Silash, born on June 6, 1984, went to China to her sister's funeral in April 2018. The local police took away her passport the next day of her arrival. She has got a Kazakhstan Permanent Resident card (044014934). [Testimony 1]; Ersingul Silash went to China in February 2018 to attend her sister's funeral. [Testimony 2]; Her ID number is 654126198406061621. [Testimony 5]

Address: Taltysai Village, Aqdala Township, Mongulkure (Zhaosu) County, Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China

current location

[Presumably in Ili.]

chronology of detention(s)

April 15, 2018

suspected and/or official reason(s) for detention

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last reported status

Testimony 1: Not in detention, but almost under house arrest. She has not seen her three children since April 2018. She is afraid of requesting her passport as some people are being arrested for asking for their passports from the local officials.

Testimony 6: she is under probation, living with relatives and forced to attend Chinese language classes.

how testifier(s) learned of victim's situation

She phones her children several times a month, but just say hello to them, nothing more. [Testimony 1]

additional information

This victim is included in the list of Mongolkure victims provided to Qazaq Uni (https://qazaquni.kz/2018/09/28/90575.html) by Lezzat Belqozha, also available at: https://shahit.biz/supp/list_005.pdf

supplementary materials

entry created on: 2018-10-13

entry last modified on: 2020-10-07

last update from testifier(s): 2018-12-05