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Mehmutjan Memet

Wife and children wait for news of a husband and father critically ill in a Chinese prison. His mother and other relatives are in jail too. A Uyghur man sentenced to life behind bars is now at death’s door, but pleas from his family for release on compassionate grounds have fallen on deaf ears.

Kifaye Ehsan, wife of 48-year-old Mehmutjan Memet, heard last year that her once healthy husband, has become critically ill with heart problems and liver disease, since the life sentence handed down to him in 2019 for so-called terrorism-related crimes.

Read more at “A Uyghur Is Dying in Jail, His Family’s Pleas Are Ignored”

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