![]() ![]() Other Academy members now held by police include Koresh Tahir, Shawket Ilahun, Abduqeyim, and Abdurazaq Sahin, with the dates of their arrests still unconfirmed, sources told RFA in earlier reports. Speaking to RFA, a staff member of the Academy confirmed Gheyret’s arrest, but declined to discuss details of the case, while a senior member of the Academy said that Gheyret was among a larger group taken into custody at the institute. ![]() Gheyret Abdurahman, the 52-year-old deputy head of the Linguistics Department at the Academy of Social Sciences of Xinjiang, was arrested in March and joins four other Academy members now in police custody, sources told RFA’s Uyghur Service. Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have arrested a prominent Uyghur scholar in a case believed linked to the publication of a book deemed “problematic” following its translation and release five years ago, Uyghur sources say. ![]()
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