Nurmemet Yasin
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Nurmemet Yasin (c. 1977 - reportedly died 2011) was a Uighur author who lived in the
People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. He was charged for inciting separatism and imprisoned after the publication of his short story "The Wild Pigeon", and in 2013, was reported to have died in prison in 2011. Nurmemet published three poetry collections: ''First Love'', ''Crying from the Heart'' and ''Come on, Children''. His short story "The Wild Pigeon" is a first-person narrative from the point-of-view of a blue pigeon king captured by pigeons of another color; he commits suicide rather than live his life in confinement. The Ministry of State Security objected to the story in part because blue is the color used by some factions of the Uighur independence movement. The story appeared in the ''Kashgar Literary Journal'', a magazine based in
Kashgar Kashgar ( ug, قەشقەر, Qeshqer) or Kashi ( zh, c=喀什) is an oasis city in the Tarim Basin region of Southern Xinjiang. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, near the border with Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan ...
,
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 ...
. Yasin was arrested a month later. On 2 February 2005, a court in Kashgar sentenced Yasin to ten years' imprisonment on a charge of inciting separatism.
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, president of the
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, called his arrest an example of "the simple truth ... that whenever Uighurs contradict the official narrative of the benevolence of the Communist Party, they are severely punished".
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cited it as an example of "official policy that criticism or minority expression in art and literature can be deemed a disguised form of secessionism, its author a criminal or even 'terrorist'". After suffering from ill health, on 1 January 2013, Yasin was reported to have died in Shaya Prison sometime in 2011.
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stated that "if confirmed, the death of this young writer in prison is a shameful indictment of the Chinese government’s notion of justice".


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