Citations:Tomosteng

English citations of Tomosteng

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Map showing Tomosteng (unnamed populated place; south of SHACHE SHA-CH'E and north of 1400±) (DMA, 1980)

• 2013 October 24, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Uyghurs Killed in Police Raids Part of ‘Separatist Bomb Plot’”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[1], archived from the original on October 15, 2015‎^[2]:

  “The police carried out five bloody raids in the course of three weeks—two separate ones in Odanliq, two in Tomosteng and one in Yingwusitang township,” he said.[...]The source could not provide the dates of the two Tomosteng raids or information about which raids the other five suspects were killed in by police.

• 2017 April 26, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Village Crackdown on ‘Illegal Religious Activities’ Nets Dozens of Uyghurs”, in Mamatjan Juma, Alim Seytoff, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[3], archived from the original on 17 August 2017‎^[4]:

  At least 52 Uyghurs in Tomosteng township’s No. 2 village, in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture’s Yarkand (Shache) county, have been arrested under related charges, the 140-household village’s party secretary Ablet Hekim told RFA’s Uyghur Service in an interview earlier this week.[...]
  RFA obtained confirmation of the 52 arrests in No. 2 village while investigating a report published last week by exile Uyghur website Hoylam.com, which claimed that a 73-year-old Uyghur woman named Helchihan Hoshur was detained after making disparaging comments about Chinese policies during a “self-criticism” session in Tomosteng township’s neighboring No. 7 village.
  Party secretaries from three different villages in Tomosteng township, including No. 3 village chief Qembernisa Hashim, were unable to confirm Hoshur’s detention.

• 2017 August 17, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Uyghur Veterinarian Jailed For Treating Suspect Wounded in Xinjiang Violence”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[5], archived from the original on 17 August 2017‎^[6]:

  Speaking to RFA’s Uyghur Service on the third anniversary of the violence, Yasinjan Helil, the party secretary of nearby Tomosteng township’s No. 9 village, suggested that he had maintained stability at the time as “only a veterinarian from my township was involved in the incident, while several hundred others were from neighboring townships.”
  When pressed for more information about the jailed veterinarian, Helil confirmed that 65-year-old Haliq Mahmut, also of Tomosteng, had been sentenced to eight years in prison for removing a bullet from the leg of a wounded fellow Uyghur that asked him for assistance at his home on the night of the incident.[...]
  A neighbor of Mahmut’s, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told RFA that he was an experienced veterinarian who had recently retired from the Tomosteng Township Veterinary Center and had opened a small practice as a family business in the village where he lives with his wife and five children.

• 2018 February 5, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Threat of Re-Education Camp Drives Uyghur Who Failed Anthem Recitation to Suicide”, in Radio Free Asia‎^[7], archived from the original on 06 February 2018; republished as Informational Materials‎^[8], 2018, page 39:

  While investigating social media reports of an alleged protest in Kashgar’s Yarkand (Shache) county, RFA’s Uyghur Service determined that a separate incident occurred recently in which a Uyghur named Tursun Ablet had hanged himself at his home in No. 1 village of the county’s Tomosteng township.
  According to officers who answered the phone at the Tomosteng Police Station, Ablet—a man in his 40s who is the father of three children—committed suicide on Jan. 28, and was discovered by his wife, before members of the provincial Public Security Bureau arrived to investigate.

• 2018 February 7, Shohret Hoshur, Alim Seytoff, Joshua Lipes, “Mandatory Indoctrination Classes For Unemployed Uyghurs in Xinjiang”, in Radio Free Asia‎^[9], archived from the original on February 8, 2018‎^[10]:

  But an officer from the Tomosteng township police station, in Kashgar’s Yarkand (Shache) county, recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service that authorities in the region are additionally requiring idle Uyghurs who are not suspected of committing any offenses to attend political indoctrination classes.[...]
  In Tomosteng, “150-200” residents attend classes, he said, adding that the number fluctuates.[...]
  Another officer from Tomosteng told RFA that the indoctrination classes are held at local Family Committee offices or Cultural Centers.[...]
  The officers told RFA that on the morning of Jan. 28, a Uyghur named Tursun Ablet had hanged himself at his home in Tomosteng’s No. 1 village because his class administrator had threatened to sentence him to a re-education camp for up to five years if he didn’t learn how to recite China’s national anthem in Mandarin Chinese instead of his native Uyghur language by the following day.

• “Qeyim Memet”, in United States Commission on International Religious Freedom‎^[11], archived from the original on 28 March 2022‎^[12]:

  In 2017, Memet was detained in Tomosteng town, Yarkand (Shache) County, Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), alongside dozens of others Uyghurs, reportedly in relation to their giving or listening to religious sermons unauthorized by authorities.