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Chinese Court Jails Uyghur Editor
for Publishing Veiled Dissent

http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=10763

WASHINGTON, DC
Chinese authorities have jailed the chief editor of
the Kashgar Literature Journal for publishing a fable
they regard as a veiled indictment of China’s heavy
handed rule in the northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region, Radio Free Asia (RFA) has
learned. The author of the story is already serving a
10-year jail term for inciting separatism.

Korash Huseyin, 35, is chief editor at Kashgar Literature
Journal, according to several sources inside Xinjiang
who spoke to RFA’s Uyghur service on condition of
anonymity. He and his wife have three children.

A court in the southern Xinjiang city of Kashgar has sentenced him to three years in
jail for publishing the original short story “Wild Pigeon” by Nurmuhemmet Yasin,
currently serving a 10-year sentence for inciting Uyghur separatism by writing it.

Fable seen as criticizing China

Both Yasin and Huseyin belong to the Muslim Uyghur ethnic group that accounts for
most of the population in Xinjiang, a vast territory rich in mineral resources and of
great strategic importance to Beijing on its northwestern borders.

No further information about the case was immediately available, and a police
official contacted by phone Thursday declined to comment.

“This kind of matter, we don’t open it to the outside,” the official said. Asked if
police had arrested Huseyin, the officer replied, “We don’t know” and hung up the
phone.

The Kashgar Literature Journal published “Wild Pigeon” in late 2004. Apparently
reading the story as a tacit criticism of Chinese rule in the region, Kashgar police
arrested Yasin, on Nov. 29, 2004.

At the time of his arrest, authorities confiscated Yasin’s personal computer, which
contained an estimated 1,600 poems, commentaries, stories, and one unfinished novel,
according to sources in the region.

Narrator commits suicide

Yasin, born March 6, 1974, is married with two young sons. His story, titled “Yawa
Kepter” in the Uyghur language, translates literally as “untamed or wild dove” or
“untamed pigeon,” as Uyghur uses the same word for both species.

The story is the fictional first-person narrative of a young pigeon—the son of a
pigeon king—who is trapped and caged by humans when he ventures far from home.

In the end, the narrator commits suicide by swallowing a poisonous strawberry rather
than sacrifice his freedom, just as his own father committed suicide under similar
conditions years earlier.

“The poisons from the strawberry flow through me,” the unnamed pigeon remarks to
himself at the end. “Now, finally, I can die freely. I feel as if my soul is on
fire—soaring and free.” Sarah Jackson-Han (jacksonhans@rfa.org)
Director of Communications
Radio Free Asia
2025 M Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone : 202-530-7774
Fax : 202-530-7794

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