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Name |
Tohti
TUNYAZ |
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Pen name |
MUZART |
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Sex |
Male |
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Birth date |
1959-10-01 |
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Birth place |
Bay
County, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region |
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Resident place |
Tokyo,
Japan |
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Education |
B.A.
in History at the Central Institute of Nationalities, Beijing, in 1984
Ph.
D student at Tokyo University, Japan |
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Profession |
Ph.
D student, Ethnic Uighur historian and writer (Honorary member of English,
Perth, Catalan, Japan, American, Liechenstein and Canadian PEN centers) |
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Date of arrest |
1998-02-06 |
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Organ of arrest |
National
Security Bureau of Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region |
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Cause of arrest |
Collecting
sensitive materials on ethnic relations, and publishing articles on
ethnic |
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Charge |
Inciting
national disunity, and stealing state secrets for foreign persons (later) |
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Date of sentence |
1999-03-10,
2000-02-15 (appeal) |
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Organ of sentence |
Urumqi
Intermediate People's Court, Xinjiang High People's Court (appeal) |
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Sentence |
11
years imprisonment and 2 years deprivation of political rights |
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Defender |
Unknown |
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Place of jail |
Xinjiang
No.3 Prison, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region |
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Situation in jail |
Unknown |
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Date of release |
2009-2-05(?) |
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Family contact |
unknown |
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Donation to |
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Case adopted by
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English,
Perth, Catalan, Japan, American, Liechenstein and Canadian PEN |
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Current Status
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Main
case
under
invistigation
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Reference |
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http://www.pencanada.ca/committ/HM/TohtiTunyaz.htm
http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/ea/mgck/archive03/02hrprc5.htm
(Chinese)
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