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Aytursun Qurban
Aytursun Qurban
阿依吐尔逊·库尔班
652901195711302525
Age
62
Gender
F
Ethnicity
Uyghur
Profession
private business
Likely place of origin
Aksu
Likely current location
Aksu
Status
concentration camp
When problems started
Jan. 2017 - Mar. 2017
Detention reason (suspected | official)
--- | ---
Health status
---
Lists
Victims in focus 
Locality
(residence)
2020-11-01

Aytursun Qurban, a businesswoman, was taken by police from her home in March 2017. Since then, there has been no news, with Aytursun not even being released to attend the funeral of her son, who lost his life in detention in 2018.

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testifying party (* direct submission)

Testimony 1|2|3|4*|5|7: Reyhangul Tohti, originally from Aksu but now living in Belgium. (daughter)

Testimony 6: Vanessa Frangville, a scholar at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. (friend of relative)

Testimony 8: Muhlise Tohti, originally from Aksu but now residing in Turkey. (daughter)

about the victim

Aytursun Qurban was a businesswoman.

Address: House No. 7, Group No. 3, Ara Mehelle Village, Qaratal Municipality, Aksu City, Xinjiang (新疆阿克苏市喀拉塔勒镇阿热买里村3组7号).

current location

[Presumably in Aksu.]

chronology of detention(s)

Taken by police from her home in March 2017 and detained in a camp.

suspected and/or official reason(s) for detention

---

last reported status

Believed to still be held at a camp.

Her phone is off, and calls to the local police station(s) have led to the police telling the victim's daughter that she should come there herself if she wants to get information about her mother. Calls to various administrative offices have also proved fruitless.

how testifier(s) learned of victim's situation

News of the detention was obtained through the testifier's sister.

It is not clear how it was learned that she is still in camp as of September 2020.

additional information

Reyhangul has had no contact with anyone in her family for the past 2 years.

It is also mentioned that the victim wasn't let out of detention to attend her son's {866} funeral.

relatives


supplementary materials

Testimony 1
Testimony 2
Testimony 3
Testimony 5
Testimony 6
Testimony 7
Testimony 8
Testimony 4 (direct)
Chinese ID


entry created on: 2018-11-26

entry last modified on: 2020-10-04

last update from testifier(s): 2020-11-01