{"id":1495,"date":"2014-12-12T22:52:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T22:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2014\/12\/12\/china-said-have-freed-jailed-uighur-linguist\/"},"modified":"2014-12-12T22:52:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T22:52:42","slug":"china-said-have-freed-jailed-uighur-linguist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/china-said-have-freed-jailed-uighur-linguist\/","title":{"rendered":"China Is Said to Have Freed Jailed Uighur Linguist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The authorities in Xinjiang, in China\u2019s far west, have reportedly released from prison a Uighur linguist and poet who was jailed after he sought to open schools to teach children the native Turkic language of the region<\/p>\n

By ANDREW JACOBS
DEC. 12, 2014<\/p>\n

BEIJING \u2014 The authorities in Xinjiang, in China\u2019s far west, have reportedly released from prison a Uighur linguist and poet who was jailed after he sought to open schools to teach children the native Turkic language of the region, according to Radio Free Asia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The linguist, Abduweli Ayup, who spent two years in the United States on a Ford Foundation scholarship, was released on Nov. 27, three months before the end of the 18-month sentence he received for \u201cillegal fund-raising,\u201d Radio Free Asia said on Friday, citing an interview with one of his relatives.<\/p>\n

The charges stemmed from a fund-raising campaign<\/a> to sell honey and T-shirts to benefit the schools.<\/p>\n

Dilyar Obul and Muhemmet Sidik, two business associates who were convicted with Mr. Ayup in August, remain jailed in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, according to the news service, which is financed by the United States government. Radio Free Asia said the men were appealing their sentences.<\/p>\n

Relatives and human rights advocates said the three men were punished after they sought to open a chain of \u201cmother tongue\u201d schools that would teach children the language traditionally used by members of the Uighur ethnic group.<\/p>\n

Government officials in Xinjiang have been aggressively promoting Mandarin, China\u2019s official language, in an effort to speed assimilation among the region\u2019s 10 million Uighurs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Court officials in Urumqi could not immediately be reached for comment Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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