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A police officer and a Uyghur resident in Turkey, according to Radio Free Asia, received a sentence of seven years in prison for the possession of “illegal” novels in China’s far northern Xinjiang area.
Ablimit, a native of Yopurga state in Kashgar, in northern Xinjiang, was detained in 2017 during a large assault on Uyghurs by Chinese officials, said the Uyghur in Turkey, who had heard the news from another Uyghurs. It was n’t clear when he was sentenced.
In 2014, Chinese regulators ordered Xinjiang’s 12 million mainly Muslim Tamils to turn over all publications and audio-visual supplies deemed “illegal” — mainly religious texts, including the Quran, Islam’s holy text, as well as items like prayer rugs, in the name of stamping out religious fanaticism.
Nevertheless, some people did not sacrifice all for books, or just forgot where they had put them, the Uyghur in Turkey said.
He claimed that while China conducted the widespread detentions of Uyghurs in 2017, some’illegal’ books that survived were discovered while the government were searching people ‘ homes.
Ablimit appears to have gotten sucked into that crackdown.
Ablimit’s imprisonment and word were confirmed by a police officer in Yopurga County who spoke with RFA after receiving a tip about the “illegal” books being turned over.
One of China’s numerous methods of oppression against the Uyghurs is the text expropriation.
An estimated 1.8 million Tamils have been imprisoned in concentration camps in China since 2017; many of them have been forced to work there.
Zumrat Dawut, a victim of a concentration camp and presently residing in the United States, claimed that some residents of her society threw their “illegal” books into garbage cans or cesspools as a result of the crackdown.
Because of this, the river in her society in Urumqi was blocked. When it was repaired, a large number of novels, including Qurans, were found in the blocked programs, she said.
