Abduqadir Jalalidin, Abduqadir Jalalidin, also transliterated as: Abduqadir Jalalidin, born on March 11, 1964, a native of Shufu County, Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, residing in the Normal University Residential Area, Youhao North Road Subdistrict, Shayibak District, Urumqi; a former member of the Communist Party; currently a Xinjiang Normal University, a renowned Uyghur poet, translator, literary critic, and member of the Chinese Writers Association.

In his early years, he studied at Kashgar Normal College in Xinjiang; after graduating from college, he worked as a teacher at a secondary school in Urumqi; He has a deep passion for poetry; in 1982 he published his first poem, and subsequently emerged as one of the key representatives of the Uyghur “Misty Poetry” movement of the 1980s, Many of his poems were also published in *Star of the East*, the official journal of the Uzbekistan National Union of Writers; he later transferred to Xinjiang Education College as an associate professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and subsequently moved to Xinjiang Normal University where he was appointed as a professor of literature; From 2000 to 2013, he received numerous awards, including those for Outstanding Teacher and Technical Worker of the Autonomous Region, Higher Education Teaching Achievement Awards, as well as the Xinjiang Hantengli Literature Award, the Philosophy and Social Sciences Award, and the Tianshan Arts Award; From 2012 to 2014, he published eight works on cultural comparative studies and translations (primarily translating Chinese literary works and outstanding literary works from the UK, Germany, Italy, the US, and other countries into Uyghur, such as *A Wise Life* (edited by Guo Cheng), *Animal Farm* (by George /Orwell), *The Last Days of Socrates* (by Plato), and *Great Wisdom in Western Classics* (from the U.S.)); These works have been quite popular among Uyghur readers;

Since 2016, as the authorities began to intensify their strict control in Xinjiang, particularly through repeated reports by official media outlets such as Xinjiang People’s Radio Station on “eliminating extremism and re-education,” as well as the resulting wave of “re-education,” numerous elites from various ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang (especially the Uighurs) have been arrested by the authorities for various reasons and sent to “re-education camps” for re-education;

In January 2018,28, his home was suddenly raided by police from a local police station in Urumqi, who confiscated various Uyghur-language materials as well as personal items such as his computer, tablet, and phone; The following day (January29), he was again taken from his home with a black hood over his head and sent to the Midong District Educational Reform Center in Urumqi for detention; Subsequently, the head of the Political Department of the Security Administration at Xinjiang Normal University confirmed that she had been criminally detained by the Urumqi Municipal National Security Bureau on suspicion of involvement in “sensitive issues”; however, her family was unable to ascertain the specific reason for her arrest;

In September 2022, he was sentenced by the Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court in Xinjiang to 13 years in prison with his sentence set to expire on: January 28, 2031; It is reported that he is frequently held in solitary confinement, so it is unknown whether he has been subjected to torture or inhuman treatment in prison; his family is deeply concerned about his physical condition.

His current place of detention is unknown.

Other sources:

https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shaoshuminzu/sc-11262020135122. html

https://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20201124/uighur-poetry-xinjiang-china/