Yalqun Rozi is a public figure, journalist, writer and literary critic, born in Atush in 1966, and graduated from Xinjiang University in 1982. He worked as a journalist for Urumchi People’s Radio Broadcasting. From 1991, he worked as an editor for the “Xinjiang Education” newspaper, and from 2005, he worked as an editor for Xinjiang Education Publishing. He is author of many books and articles about Uyghur education, literary criticism, modern history and various Uyghur historical and social issues. He was detained in October 2017 soon after he returned from a trip abroad. Since then we have learned that he has been sentenced to a 15-year prison term, but we are unable to get official confirmation.
