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nearly nine months. He was not formally charged until May 17, 2014, when he and his partners were accused of having collected "illegal donations" to support their school. After a one-day trial on July 11, on August 21 the court convicted
Abduweli and his associates of having "committed a crime of abusing public money." According sentence in writing, aimed at opening mother language school, Abduweli and two of his partners had illegally accepted 590,000 CNY (about $ 95,000)in deposits from 17 people. During case processing time no one among the 17 have asked for their money back. Despite all of that Abduweli was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $ 13,000. Colleagues and human rights organizations contend that Abduweli's punishment is part of a government plan to marginalize and displace the Uyghur language.
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City and accused of false funding and illegally raising funds for his proposed schools. Along with him, Dilyar Obul and
Muhemmet Sidik Abdurshit, two of his partners involved with the school, were also detained. Abduweli suffered through illness while in prison, where he was held incommunicado for
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Abduweli Ayup is a linguist specializing in Uyghur language education. He is a strong proponent of linguistic human rights, specifically, the right for the intergenerational transmission of language and culture. From
December 2005 to June 2006, Abduweli was a visiting scholar at
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Abduwali was released on
November 20, 2014, after his partners, Dilyar Obul and Muhemmet Sidik, appealed their verdict. Abduweli has returned to Kashgar, and continues to teach at his friends' language training school, which his wife, Miraghul, worked in his absence.
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in the United States, and completed his master's degree in
Linguistics in 2011. Upon graduation, Abduweli returned to Xinjiang and opened schools to teach the Uyghur language, his mother tongue.
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President of China to investigate the circumstances under which Abduweli Ayup was detained, and petitioned for fair treatment as per China's obligations under International Law.
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