Source: UCA News<\/p>\n
More than 30 relatives of exiled Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer have been detained in northwest China’s Xinjiang region in recent months, she has said.<\/p>\n
Kadeer, president of the Munich-based exile World Uyghur Congress (WUC), told Radio Free Asia on Oct. 27 that they were probably “sent to prison or political re-education camps” \u2014 used since April to hold thousands of Uyghurs accused of having “extremist” or “politically incorrect” views.<\/p>\n
“Of my immediate relatives \u2014 including my children and grandchildren \u2014 altogether 11 have been detained,” the 70-year-old said.<\/p>\n
“But if I include the children of my brother and other relatives, more than 30 are being held,” ranging in age from 22 to 58.<\/p>\n
Kadeer said she never thought authorities would arrest her children and grandchildren as they had been under virtual house arrest since she went into exile in the U.S.<\/p>\n
The former businesswoman and mother of 11 children was freed from a Chinese prison in 2005 on medical grounds after being jailed for six years for sending politically sensitive newspaper clippings abroad.<\/p>\n
While some of Kadeer’s children joined her in the U.S., others remain in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n
Her sons Alim and Ablikim Abdureyim, who had previously served seven and nine years in prison, respectively, were among the family members detained, she said.<\/p>\n
Ablikim had been jailed for “instigating and engaging in secessionist activities” online.<\/p>\n
Evidence of these activities was never provided by the state, according to the WUC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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