Uyghur intellectuals and professionals are put in re-education camps
Examples:
- Rahile Dawut: scholar of Uyghur folklore and the geography of Uyghur sufi shrines.
- Sayithaji Qasim: a well-known urologist at the Kashgar No. 2 People’s Hospital. He was recently confirmed to have been sentenced to 25 years.
- Gheyretjan Osman: Professor of Uyghur language at Xinjiang University
# Textbook writers
Several academics have been incarcerated because of the Crackdown on Uyghur textbooks for their content, for their role in writing those books. These include:
# References
- List of Uyghur intellectuals imprisoned in China from 2016 to the present (Last up-dated by Abduweli Ayup on XX XX XXXX)
- Source: https://concernedscholars.home.blog/
- detainedintellectuals.pdf
- List of Uyghur intellectuals imprisoned in China from 2016 to the present (Last updated by Abduweli Ayup on March 13th, 2021)
- https://www.nchrd.org/2021/10/urgent-actions-needed-to-stop-cultural-rights-violations-against-uyghurs/