36 people were retried and sentenced to prison again, who had completed their sentences from the village of Ghazkul in the Maquet District

It has been confirmed by testimony that the Chinese authorities are reconvicting those arrested before 2017 in East Turkistan before the end of their sentences, and in this way they plan to keep people they consider a threat to national security in prison for life. In the course of our correspondent’s investigation, it turned out that 36 people from the village of Ghazkul in Maket District in Kashgar, East Turkistan, which China has occupied since 1949 and calls “Xinjiang,” were re-punished during the past seven years.
According to a person familiar with the situation during our phone interview, Chinese authorities felt that punishments for those arrested before 2017 had become “lighter” after the vast majority of those detained in the 2017 mass arrests were sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. Therefore, once those who had completed their sentence were released from prison, they were arrested again and retried. On the one hand, the Chinese authorities tried to maintain a balance in punishment. On the other hand, I tried to prevent something from happening at the hands of those who came out of prison after they saw the miserable situation, especially after receiving the news of their brothers and friends who had been sentenced.
In the context of our inquiries about the re-punishment of Uyghur prisoners by the Chinese authorities, a police officer in Gazkul village, Maket District, revealed that he currently has more than 20 cases, some of which are former prisoners who have completed their sentences. Another police officer who received our call from Maquet Bazar Police Station said that a secret trial was conducted against more than 30 people this week, and that the police did not participate in the trial, as there was a certain percentage of those who were tried and arrested who had completed their sentences. A police officer in the village of Gazkul said that 36 people from one village under his authority had been re-punished.
A person familiar with the situation said that the re-punishment of former prisoners is carried out according to an urgent and strict order issued by the hierarchy of power. A Maket Bazar police officer confirmed that the Maket District Court and the Public Prosecutor did not interfere in the re-punishment of former prisoners, and that the cases were handled by the Kashgar District Court and the Public Prosecutor.
Our radio analyst, Ms. Asi Uyghur, in her previous comments published on our radio and in her response to the discussion about re-punishment of Uyghur prisoners on social media, said that this is not a new measure for China, and that its political prisoners have been punished repeatedly since the occupation of East Turkistan, and that a number Re-sanctions are currently high, which is why it has attracted the attention of observers.
It was confirmed in our previous interviews that the famous religious leader Karam Abdel Wali was sentenced to 12 years in prison in the 1990s, and his sentence was extended 4 times after he was retried and sentenced to more than 20 years and died in prison.