To whom it may concern, What follows is public testimony data exported from the Xinjiang Victims Database (shahit.biz) on Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:55:36 +0000. A total of 115 victims with the following criteria is considered: List: Chinese Communist Party members The vast majority of testimonies presented come with supplementary materials - video, audio, pictures, and documents - the links to which are included here and which also may be consulted by accessing the testimonies via the original interface at www.shahit.biz. In compiling this information, all efforts have been made to faithfully and accurately convey that which has been put forth by the testifier. In many cases, the information was imported from public sources. In others, it was submitted to us directly by the testifier. Despite our best efforts and most professional intentions, it is inevitable that some human error is nevertheless present. Many testimonies were inputted by non-native English speakers and still require proofreading. Finally, the majority of these testimonies have not gone through rigorous corroboration and as such should not be treated as fact. We hereby leave the way in which this data will be used to the reader's discretion. Sincerely, the shahit.biz team 1. Rahile Dawut (热依拉·达吾提) Chinese ID: 650103196605202821 (Urumqi) Basic info Age: 54 Gender: F Ethnicity: Uyghur Likely current location: Urumqi Status: unclear (hard) When problems started: Oct. 2017 - Dec. 2017 Detention reason (suspected|official): other|"separatism" Health status: --- Profession: scholar Testifying party (* direct submission) Testimony 1: Anonymous, as reported by New York Times. (relative) Testimony 2*: Darren Byler, an anthropologist at the University of Colorado. (colleague) Testimony 3: Sarah Tynen, a geography scholar from the United States. (colleague) Testimony 4: Lisa Ross, a photographer living in the United States. (friend) Testimony 5|6|7: Eqide Polat, a student in the United States. (daughter) Testimony 8: Elise Anderson, an ethnomusicologist from the United States. (colleague) Testimony 9: Abduweli Ayup, a language activist, linguist, and writer, originally from Kashgar but now residing in Norway. (former student) Testimony 10: Xinjiang University staff, as reported by Radio Free Asia Uyghur. (colleague) Testimony 11: Eqide Polat, as reported by William Yang. (daughter) Testimony 12: Eqide Polat, as reported by SupChina. (daughter) Testimony 13: Eqide Polat, as reported by Voice of America. (daughter) Testimony 14: Urumqi police records, as reported by Yael Grauer. About the victim Professor Rahile Dawut is a scholar of Uyghur folklore and the geography of Uyghur Sufi shrines. She founded the Ethnic Minorities Folklore Research Center at Xinjiang University where she built an intellectual home for dozens of young researchers. She is widely celebrated for her pathbreaking work as one of the first female Uyghur academics to receive her PhD and rise through the ranks of Chinese academia. Address: Xinjiang University apartment building, Urumqi. [This was her address as of 2009, but presumably has not changed, as she remained a professor at the university.] Victim's location Unknown, but it is likely that she is being detained in Urumqi. When victim was detained Her detention was first made known to her students and colleagues around the world in December 2017. In a video testimony, Rahile's daughter says that her mother last contacted her in December 2017, saying that she had been asked to go to Beijing and that she would get in touch once she got there (administrators had asked her to pack her bags and attend an urgent conference there). Urumqi police records note a person with her ID number as going through a police check at the Luzhou Neighborhood police office of the Badaowan Police Station (八道湾派出所绿洲社区警务室) in March 2018, with the system marking her as "completely normal" (一切正常) and "blue" (蓝色). [It is not clear what this means, as it comes months after her disappearance.] Likely (or given) reason for detention Unknown, but it is likely she was detained both because she is a person of influence and because she researched Uyghur local knowledge and practices. She comes up briefly in a recording of a phone conversation between Radio Free Asia and a Xinjiang University staffer, where the latter says that she doesn't know why exactly Rahile was detained. While she only says her first name (as opposed to "Rahile Dawut"), given the context and the fact that Rahile Dawut was very well known, it is almost certain that this was said in reference to the victim. Eqide has also reported hearing from an unofficial source that her mother had been accused of "separatism". Victim's status Missing. Her daughter believes that she is likely in detention and awaiting a secret trial. How did the testifier learn about the victim's status? Her daughter learned it from the fact that her mother was supposed to contact her after arriving in Beijing but never did. Her students and colleagues first learned of her detention via text messages sent from colleagues in China. The staff at Xinjiang University who confirmed her detention presumably have more direct information regarding her case. More recently, relatives have told Rahile's daughter that her mother is "awaiting results". Additional information To date, 18000 people have signed a petition demanding Rahile's immediate release: https://www.change.org/p/xi-jinping-petition-for-the-immediate-release-of-professor-rahile-dawut-and-ot her-uyghur-scholars The New York Times has also published a story about her detention: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/world/asia/china-xinjiang-rahile-dawut.html Blog article about the victim and her work: https://stephenjones.blog/2019/09/03/mazar-uyghur/ Written about in London Review of Books: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/august/where-is-rahile-dawut Mention in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/03/china-every-day-is-kristallnacht/ Mention in the Diplomat: https://thediplomat.com/2019/11/what-happens-when-the-uyghurs-come-home/ Mention in Voice of America: https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/voa-news-china/china-retaliates-against-uighur-activists-impri soning-relatives-us Her daughter's campaign: https://www.freemymom.org/ Radio Free Asia investigation: https://www.rfa.org/uyghur/xewerler/siyaset/uyghur-ziyaliy-lager-09132018143252.html SupChina article: https://supchina.com/2020/04/01/a-uyghur-daughter-alone-in-america-during-a-pandemic/ Her Baidu Baike: https://archive.vn/9JLHo This victim is also included in the list of prominent detained Uyghurs, available at: shahit.biz/supp/list_003.pdf Radio Free Asia calls transcript Call No. 1 (with staffer at Xinjiang University): Staffer: Yes, hello? RFA: Is this Xinjiang University? Staffer: Yes. … RFA: Where’s the president of the humanities university, Arslan Abdulla, right now? [recommended to talk to the philology headquarters office] Call No. 2 (with staffer at Xinjiang University’s philology headquarters office): Staffer: Hello? RFA: Hi, how are you doing? Staffer: Hello? RFA: How are you? Hello? Staffer: I'm all right. You? RFA: Yeah, good, good… Which office of Xinjiang University is this? Staffer: Xinjiang University's general administration office (综合治理办公室). RFA: Do they call it "general administration" or "headquarters"? Staffer: They call it “headquarters”. RFA: How many people from Xinjiang University are in training centers? Staffer: That I don't know. RFA: How long has it been since Arslan Abdulla stopped working? Staffer: I’m sorry. I'm not able to tell you these things. RFA: How about Abdurekim Rahman? How long has it been for Prof. Abdukerim Rahman? Staffer: I don't know. RFA: We got this number from the Education Bureau. They said that you would know these things. This was the contact information from the Education Bureau. If you cannot answer this, then we will speak with someone who is in the know. Who are the people in charge there? Who is the head of the philological institute now? Staffer: If that's the case, then look, here is what I'll do. These things… I'll go and see one of the bosses, and once I've found out exactly when these people stopped working, and where they are being held, then I will call you back. RFA: Okay. In that case, the first thing we're asking is: when did they stop working? Second: which branches of public security took them away? Which training centers? It would be good if you could get us this kind of information. Staffer: Wait a moment. Ah... Right now, all of our bosses are in meetings, this being our headquarters, after all. We have a cadre who is responsible for these things. I’ll get these matters clarified, and in fifteen minutes, if you call back this number that you dialed, I’ll pick up. RFA: You'll get it yourself? Ah, okay, okay, fifteen minutes... Staffer: I'll go get that done right now. RFA: Okay, okay. Take care. Staffer: I’ll get it done now. RFA: Okay. Take care. Call No. 3 (with the same staffer as in the previous call): RFA: So were you able to get some information? Where is Abdukerim Rahman? Staffer: For that one, there's no information. They still haven't made that public. RFA: Are they all in one training center, or in different training centers? Staffer: I don't know that either. RFA: Did they take Abdukerim Rahman away at a meeting, or from his home? Staffer: I don't know. RFA: Are their cases being handled by the disciplinary commission or by public security? Arslan Abdulla's. Staffer: I can't tell you anything about that either. RFA: On what day was Abdukerim Rahman taken away? When he still worked at the school.