Ye’erjiang Huaxi (叶尔江·胡阿西) — Media Profile & Archive

October 9, 2026

Person profile: Ye’erjiang Huaxi (叶尔江·胡阿西)

Media Archive: Ye’erjiang Huaxi (叶尔江·胡阿西)

This archive preserves the source record for the case of Ye’erjiang Huaxi (叶尔江·胡阿西), the ethnic Kazakh imam of the Alemale Village mosque in Gongliu County, Xinjiang, sentenced to 21 years in prison.

Case chronology

March 2018 — Detained by Jiergelang Township police after celebrating Nowruz with fellow mosque Muslims, including Islamic worship rituals. Five other mosque Muslims detained at the same time; all six sent to a local “re-education camp”; contact lost. (维权网, September 6, 2022)
2019 — Formally arrested by Gongliu County police on suspicion of “illegal assembly” and “spreading improper religion”; prosecuted by the Gongliu County Procuratorate in the Gongliu County Court. (维权网, September 6, 2022)
February–March 2019 — Secret trial; the six sentenced to 18–21 years for “illegal assembly” and “illegally spreading religion.” Huaxi sentenced to 21 years, term reported to March 2039; reported serving at Xinyuan Prison, Xinyuan County. (维权网, September 6, 2022)
August 31, 2026 — Listed by 维权网 as the sole person in the 21-year-sentence group of its monthly report on political prisoners and prisoners of conscience reported to be currently in custody. (维权网 Issue 131)

Source records

维权网 (Rights Defense Network) — “获刑21年的哈萨克族新疆伊犁州巩留县吉尔格郎乡阿勒玛勒村清真寺伊玛目叶尔江•胡阿西的案情及简介” (September 6, 2022). Dedicated case record: identity (ethnic Kazakh, Muslim, imam of the Alemale Village mosque, Jiergelang Township, Gongliu County, Ili Prefecture), the March 2018 Nowruz detention, the 2019 arrest and secret trial, the 21-year sentence with term to March 2039, and Xinyuan Prison as the reported place of detention. Article
维权网 Issue 131 (August 31, 2026) — monthly 在押 political-prisoner roster; 叶尔江．胡阿西（哈） the sole occupant of the 判刑21年 band. Custody-classification source and ZH-name anchor.

Provenance and limits

The case record (source 1) is single-lineage independent rights reporting; no second independent account of this case was found in indexed sources, and no official court document is publicly available. All case facts are attributed to 维权网.
The trial was reported as secret; charges are given as reported by 维权网 (“illegal assembly,” “illegally spreading religion”), not as independently verified court findings.
Do not merge with Nazha’er•Ye’erjiang (纳杂尔•叶尔江) — a different person (Uyghur, different case) who shares only the given-name transliteration 叶尔江.