CCP gives Uyghur father 20-year-imprisonment for sending son abroad, visiting Turkey

Nuraxun Rozi visited his teenage son who was studying in Egypt in 2015, stayed there for a week and traveled in Turkey for another week before returning home in China, RFA reported.

After he went back, his passport was confiscated, and he was not allowed to go abroad again. Sixteen months after his return, China’s Communist Party authorities sent him to a detention camp in April 2017 during the height of mass internment of Uyghurs in “re-education” camps under Chinese authorities’ guise of providing vocational training to prevent religious extremism and terrorism.

Nuraxun, now 49, was later sentenced to 20 years in prison in August 2018 for sending his child abroad to study, helping his son while he was in Egypt and for traveling abroad, his son confirmed.

The Uyghur from the Ara community of Kepekyuzi village in Ghulja, known as Yining in Chinese, is serving his sentence in Kunes Prison, according to an officer at the Kepekyuzi Police Station contacted by RFA.