 Writer, teacher and translator from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, arrested July 26, 2002 after providing information to the East Turkestan Information Centre (ETIC), a Uighur rights and pro-independence group run by exiled Uighurs in Germany. On June 14, 2003, Memetemin was convicted by the Kashgar Intermediate People’s Court of “illegally providing state secrets to overseas organizations” and sentenced to nine years in a Urumqi prison. He was reportedly denied legal representation at his trial, he has been tortured in prison, and his family is banned from visiting him. |
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