Abdulrahman Hasan, 47, recently discovered his wife’s photo among thousands of captive Uyghur photographs. The photos are part of a large-scale hacking of Chinese police documents that has sparked outrage worldwide. His wife, Tunsagül Nurmemet, has been in prison since 2017.
Hasan managed to escape from Xinjiang and applied for asylum in the Netherlands. He hopes that the European Union and the Netherlands will impose sanctions on China.
His wife Tunsagül Nurmemet was a housewife until her arrest. He is accused by Chinese authorities of bringing groups of people together and causing unrest, according to hacked documents released last week. Xinjiang Police Files† Sentenced to sixteen years in prison. “My wife has never done anything wrong,” Hassan says. “She took care of our two children.” He hasn’t contacted her for five years.
Two months ago, BBC investigators approached Hassan, who had prepared a statement about thousands of documents and photos taken from hacked Chinese police computers. Fourteen media outlets worked together with the German researcher Adrian Zenz for this.
BBC detectives showed him a photo of his wife. Hasan said, ‘I couldn’t believe my eyes. ‘I thought he was dead. On the one hand, I am happy that Tunsagül is still alive, at least in 2018. On the other hand, I was deeply saddened to hear that he was in a concentration camp where people were being held. tortured.”
Hasan had to leave his wife and children behind
Hasan was a businessman who exported fruits and textiles, among other things, owned several houses and a football training institute, in which he invested money. It shows pictures where it can be seen in happier years; At the opening of the football club, family and friends gathered around a richly decorated table. Hasan had a prosperous life. “I used to have a family and a businessman,” he says, “now I am a poor refugee in the Netherlands.”
In December 2016, Hasan returned from a business trip from neighboring Kyrgyzstan, where he sold T-shirts and buttons in the market. He took a few weeks off and wanted to visit his family. During this period, the Chinese authorities began mass incarceration of Uyghur men in what they called “re-educational institutions.”
He learned that Hasan was wanted in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, and that he should not go to his hometown of Kashgar. He immediately decided to turn around. He had to leave his wife and two young children behind, they do not have a passport and therefore could not leave the country. “It was a difficult decision,” Hassan says.
All of Hasan’s relatives are in concentration camps.
Shortly afterwards, her father, brothers and an uncle disappeared in the camps. In addition to his wife Tunsagül, his 73-year-old mother Amine was also arrested. Hasan had gone mad. He went to the demonstrations with a protest sign on which he had pasted pictures of his wife and mother. At the bottom was the text: “Shoot my mother and my wife. I pay for the bullets. Hasan: “The stories I heard in the camps were so terrible that I would rather have them dead than tortured for years.”
His mother was released inexplicably shortly afterwards. Hasan ponders the fate of his wife and mother as he seeks international attention. Her children, now eight and four years old, live at home with her older sister and mother. Occasionally he sees pictures of them on social media showing that they are still alive. “But I can see in the eyes of my children that they are unhappy,” she says. “They no longer have parents and live in a society where all Uyghurs are considered criminals. What kind of life do you have then?”
Hasan has no contact with his family. “If they contact me, they’re in big trouble,” he says. “I know people who call or contact their family through social media and enter one of the camps as a result.”
Hasan hopes that the hacked documents, which have now been made public, will eventually spur the European Union into real action. “It is now clearer than ever that my wife and others have been imprisoned and oppressed by hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians who have been wrongly detained. The West has been turning away from the Uyghurs for years. Now is the time to change course. †
Source: NU
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