Beijing, Oct 2: In a bizarre incident, an Uyghur editor-in-chief of a state-run literature magazine in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of northwest China committed suicide as he apprehended detention in a political “re-education camp”, Radio Free Asia (RFA) cited sources as saying. The tragedy happened amid a series of arrests of Uyghur officials accused of being two-faced. “Two-faced” is a term which is used by the government to describe Uyghur cadres who on one hand pay lip service to Communist Party rule in the XUAR, but secretly dissent state policies that allegedly repress the members of their ethnic group.
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The 55-year-old editor-in-chief of Literature Translation magazine, Qeyser Qeyum, “jumped out of the eighth floor” of his office building in Urumqi, the regional capital, RFA’s Uyghur Service cited as being told by Qutluq Almas, who had previously worked with Qeyum at Xinjiang University.
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