Adil Mijit (
Uyghur: ئادىل مىجىت; born 1 January 1964) is a prominent
Uyghur comedian and one of the Chinese state first-class actors. He is famous among the Uyghur community for his dramas and comedy series and hundreds of shows in local TV. He performed his "Adil Mijit Comedy Concert" in 1997 and 2010 separately in Ürümqi. Mijit went missing from the region in November 2018.
Early life and education
Adil was born in
Karamay
Karamay is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The name of the city comes from the Uyghur language and means "black oil", referring to the oil fields near the city.
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Xinjiang
Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
, China, in 1964, to a high level engineer Mijit Zahidi's family. After graduating his high school in 1980, he started to work as technicians in an oilfield development company and as actor in Karamay Academy of Drama. In 1982, he went to
Central Academy of Drama
The Central Academy of Drama (), abbreviated Zhong Xi (), is a drama school in Beijing, China. It is a Chinese state Double First Class University Plan university identified by the Ministry of Education of China. The school is the first theatre ...
in Beijing. After his graduation he worked as an actor in Xinjiang Academy of Drama.
Disappearance and release
Adil is believed to have been sentenced to three years in prison or taken to one of the
re-education camps throughout Xinjiang. The performer's daughter Adile Adil told RFA's Uyghur Service that he was dismissed from his job and spent over 70 days in hospital for heart surgery. Later their family lost contact with him since 2 November 2018. Adil's disappearance is believed to be linked to a pilgrimage he made two years ago to the Muslim holy city of
Mecca
Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the Holiest sites in Islam, holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red ...
without permission from Chinese authorities.
According to his son-in-law'
interview after his release, he is doing his own business.
See also
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List of people who disappeared
Lists of people who disappeared include those whose current whereabouts are unknown, or whose deaths are unsubstantiated. Many people who disappear are eventually declared dead ''in absentia''. Some of these people were possibly subjected to enfo ...
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Sanubar Tursun
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Xinjiang re-education camps
The Xinjiang internment camps, officially called vocational education and training centers ( zh, 职业技能教育培训中心, Zhíyè jìnéng jiàoyù péixùn zhōngxīn) by the government of China, are internment camps operated by ...
References
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1964 births
2010s missing person cases
Living people
Missing person cases in China
Uyghurs