Zhumabieke·Muhan / 珠玛别克·穆汗
Zhumabieke·Muhan (珠玛别克·穆汗, also rendered Zhumabek Muhan) is a Kazakh man serving a 14-year prison sentence in Xinjiang. Born in 1976, he is from Altay city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and he worked as an official in the armed-forces department (武装部) of Karashilik township, Altay city.
According to prisoner-monitoring records, his posts and chats on the messaging app WeChat came under the surveillance of Altay internet police. On May 17, 2016, Altay city police criminally detained him on suspicion of involvement with state secrets; the procuratorate then formally approved his arrest, accusing him of “talking recklessly” online and “leaking CCP internal party secrets.” In April 2018 it emerged that the Altay city Intermediate People's Court had sentenced him to 14 years' imprisonment for “leaking state secrets,” with the term running to May 16, 2030.
The same records report severe consequences for his family: his son, then a university student in Shanghai, was expelled and sent home; his wife Guljialila (古丽加丽拉), who had worked at the township health clinic, was dismissed; his savings of 600,000 yuan were confiscated, as were the family's 50 head of cattle. His current prison facility is not known, and no photograph of him has been located.
The case details above come from records kept by human-rights monitoring organizations; no official verdict text has been publicly located. With the sentence end date in the future and the last custody confirmation in 2022, he is documented as currently detained; no later independent confirmation has been found.
Key facts
- Born: 1976, Altay city, Xinjiang
- Identity: Kazakh; township armed-forces department official
- Detention: May 17, 2016 — criminal detention after WeChat surveillance; formally arrested
- Reported charge: leaking state secrets (as reported; official verdict text unavailable)
- Sentence: 14 years; term ends May 16, 2030 (sentence news emerged April 2018)
- Prison: currently serving; facility not disclosed
Sources
- Chinese Political Prisoner Concern (CPP Committee), “珠玛别克·穆汗（CPPC編號：00670）”, May 20, 2018 — https://cppc1989.blogspot.com/2018/05/blog-post_20.html
- Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database, record “珠玛别克·穆汗 / Zhumabek Muhan” (entered July 27, 2022) — https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/searchpage
Not to be confused with the Chinese MMA fighter also named Zhumabieke, or with the similarly named Kazakh scholar Adil Semeykhanuly — all different people. The Chinese name appears with a bullet separator in some sources (珠玛别克•穆汗) and a middle dot in others (珠玛别克·穆汗); it is the same name.
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