Ablajan Awut Ayup

Human Rights Defenders Information Center reported on December 2 that Uyghur singer Ablajan Awut Ayup received an 11-year sentence in prison.

Ablajan Awut Ayup is an Uyghur pop singer who went missing in 2018. Born in 1984, he grew up with his five siblings in a peasant family in the village of Guma in the Hotan district.