Official account of the Xinjiang Victims Database (http://shahit.biz). Spotlighting victims and sharing database updates.
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Progress report for the third quarter of 2026: shahit.biz/shahitbiz_re...
We're also doing another critical call for donations, as we've essentially worked through all the funds we had and are once more down to 0 (the relevant methods in replies).
Another example of extreme "emotional surveillance" of detainees' relatives, following depression that the authorities themselves created by detaining two people in the family: shahit.biz/urumqireport...
One example (of many) of how negative emotional expressions - most commonly, crying - were deemed problematic and a subject for "ideological work": shahit.biz/urumqireport...
"provisional sentencing" = camp sentences that were given out to most detainees in late 2018 / early 2019.
Fajr, 07:11 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Turghun Tursun.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#34799
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One example (of many) of how negative emotional expressions - most commonly, crying - were deemed problematic and a subject for "ideological work": shahit.biz/urumqireport...
"provisional sentencing" = camp sentences that were given out to most detainees in late 2018 / early 2019.
Thailand has pardoned two Uyghurs held since 2014 and moved them to Bangkok’s Immigration Detention Centre to await deportation.
NUR is calling on Thailand to protect the remaining Uyghurs in detention and facilitate transit to a safe third country.
Asr, 16:46 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Ablikim Turdi.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#27773
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Dhuhr, 13:54 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Iminjan Turghun.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#56732
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#FreeIminjanTurghun
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Maghrib, 19:15 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Ayliqiz Abliz.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#28990
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Isha, 20:35 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Mamut Qasim.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#31517
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Fajr, 07:06 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Memetimin Emet.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#32326
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#FreeMemetiminEmet
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Dhuhr, 13:54 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Yunus Mamut.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#56340
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We've translated and posted a fairly important and high-level internal police report from Urumqi (dated July 2018): shahit.biz/reportcont.p...
It details the detentions and repression in higher education specifically, including the suicide of a school director. (1/11)
Police also complain about the lack of communication with police bureaus outside Urumqi, as students who go home and end up detained often disappear, with neither police nor their schools in Urumqi able to learn the specifics. (10/11)
The report was drafted by the city's domestic-security branch.
Around a year later, both of the Uyghur deputy bureau directors to whom it was addressed (Qadir Memet and Juret Ibrahim) would themselves be detained and essentially "purged", with little to no news since. (11/11)
We've translated and posted a fairly important and high-level internal police report from Urumqi (dated July 2018): shahit.biz/reportcont.p...
It details the detentions and repression in higher education specifically, including the suicide of a school director. (1/11)
Students with detained relatives look for ways to stay in Urumqi during winter and summer breaks, as they hesitate to return home for fear of being detained.
Police complain that this complicates their surveillance duties and gives them more work. (8/11)
Additional discrimination is seen by students with detained relatives when applying to vocational schools, as these too reject them for fear of being implicated. (9/11)
We've translated and posted a fairly important and high-level internal police report from Urumqi (dated July 2018): shahit.biz/reportcont.p...
It details the detentions and repression in higher education specifically, including the suicide of a school director. (1/11)
The "study, purge, counter" (学肃反) campaign, in which teachers have to regularly self-criticize and re-evaluate their past actions, is shown to create an atmosphere of terror with real victims.
One teacher is fired for hiding her husband's detention. (6/11)
More tragically, Weli Tursun (shahit.biz/eng/101402/), the director of the Xinjiang Light Industry Vocational and Technical College, commits suicide by jumping from a building.
Police attribute it to his sister's detention and heavy workload/pressure. (7/11)
We've translated and posted a fairly important and high-level internal police report from Urumqi (dated July 2018): shahit.biz/reportcont.p...
It details the detentions and repression in higher education specifically, including the suicide of a school director. (1/11)
The report also illustrates the various adverse effects of the policies.
One is the discrimination faced by "tagged" students or those with detained relatives - having to constantly report to the authorities creates a burden for employers, who then stop hiring them. (4/11)
Another issue is the immense workload and pressure on the teachers, some of whom are regularly summoned because of phone contact with flagged students.
At Xinjiang Normal University, 7 student counselors (辅导员) resign as a result. (5/11)
We've translated and posted a fairly important and high-level internal police report from Urumqi (dated July 2018): shahit.biz/reportcont.p...
It details the detentions and repression in higher education specifically, including the suicide of a school director. (1/11)
Addressed to the city's police leadership (bureau director Tao Hongjun and deputy directors Qadir Memet and Juret Ibrahim), it starts with an overview, including that of the 211688 students in Urumqi:
- 488 are detained,
- 5573 have detained relatives,
- 7044 are "tagged" (2/11)
Invasive surveillance of students and teachers is also described, with both subjected to routine inspection of phones, computers, and storage drives.
Students with detained relatives are further subjected to "daily meetings, weekly summaries, and monthly assessments". (3/11)
Dhuhr, 13:55 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Qurbanjan Obul.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#31450
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Maghrib, 19:20 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Ibrahim Ehmet.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#83699
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#FreeIbrahimEhmet
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Isha, 20:39 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Qeyyum Tomur.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#31236
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Dhuhr, 13:55 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Yusuphaji Abduqadir.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#1346
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Asr, 16:55 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Raisa Muti.
Ethnicity: #Kazakh.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#4531
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#FreeRaisaMuti
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Isha, 20:42 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Roziqari Semet.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#34147
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We've translated and posted a village-level morning + evening report pair from Zharqora Village in Tekes County (September 2018): shahit.biz/caseview.php...
This one establishes the camp detention of Abduyashiq Sadiq (shahit.biz/eng/101401/).
Fajr, 07:00 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Sidiq Helil.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#5067
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Example of Urumqi police targeting a Weibo user for writing that police abuse the law and send people to camp arbitrarily (thereby confirming the user's allegations): shahit.biz/urumqireport...
Dhuhr, 13:55 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Erkin Omer.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#251
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Fajr, 06:58 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Ismayiljan Emet.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#56943
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#FreeIsmayiljanEmet
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Fajr, 06:57 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Yarmuhemmetjan Obul.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#36183
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#FreeYarmuhemmetjanObul
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Isha, 20:52 at Urumqi.
We are praying for the victims of the mass incarceration campaign in Xinjiang.
Name: Yusupehmet Qadir.
Ethnicity: #Uyghur.
Profile: https://shahit.biz/#42803
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