TAKE ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Help Release Detained Writers and Publishers!

At least one million predominantly Muslim men and women have been detained in Xinjiang, China since 2017. Some have disappeared, others have been sentenced to or detained in internment camps. Many people are imprisoned because of their academic publications, reporting, or literary writings.

Amnesty has done careful documentation to prove that men and women from predominantly Muslim ethnic groups have been arbitrarily detained and sent to internment camps or prison in Xinjiang, China.

This is part of a larger campaign of subjugation and forced assimilation of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang that we must help stop.

Act now to help us release detained writers and publishers in China: Send your letter to President Xi Jinping.

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Dear President Xi,

Since 2017, perhaps 1 million or more persons are estimated to have been detained by the Chinese government in Xinjiang. They have been sent to internment camps or prisons for lawful activities that most take for granted, where they have been subjected to a relentless forced indoctrination campaign, physical and psychological torture and other forms of ill-treatment.

Many have been detained for possessing books or articles about Islam or Uyghur culture or for exercising their freedom of expression through writing, translation and publication. For example, Ahmetjan Juma, a high school teacher, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for “having sensitive content at home,” perhaps related to his translation and publication of many books.  Abdukadir Jalalidin was a professor at Xinjiang Normal University who wrote short stories and translated Uyghur books and poems. Police confiscated many of his Uyghur-language books and writings at the time of his arrest. Rahile Dawut is an ethnographer who founded the Ethnic Minorities Folklore Research Center at Xinjiang University. Her work on folklore traditions of the Uyghur people is believed to be a reason for her detention.

Based on evidence collected by Amnesty International in the report Like We Were Enemies in a War, the Chinese government has committed, at the least, the crimes against humanity of mass imprisonment in violation of the rules of international law, torture and persecution in Xinjiang.

I urge you to immediately release Ahmetjan Juma, Abdukadir Jalalidin, Rahile Dawut, and all people detained in internment camps and in prisons in Xinjiang, unless there is sufficient evidence that they have committed an internationally recognized offense.

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