Chen Haoyu
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# chronology of detention(s)
He was previously held at a detention center for 15 days in December 2019.
In January 2021, a text message was sent to government offices in Karamay telling each office to find one Uyghur to film a propaganda clip. Chen obtained a screenshot of the message from a friend (who had family working for the Karamay government). That same month, the victim sent the screenshot to Dake Kang of the Associated Press, and was promptly detained three days later.
In April 2021, the Xinjiang authorities confirmed that Chen was arrested, specifying that he was being held at the Karamay City Detention Center, under suspicion of “inciting separatism”.
In late June 2021, Twitter user @TGtadie wrote that Chen’s sentence had allegedly been announced already.
# official reason(s) for detention
According to Wang Tonghe, the official reason for the December 2019 detention was “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, with police interrogating the victim in relation to his posts on Chinese social media (specifically, Xinjiang government documents from a New York Times story).
According to the XUAR information office, he had “fabricated and published false information, inciting people who did not have knowledge of the true facts to carry out separatist activities that harm the unity of the nation”, with the recent arrest made on suspicion of the crime of “inciting separatism”. According to friends of the victim, his January 2021 arrest was related to the screenshot he sent to Dake Kang three days prior.