Profile: Yisimayili Sidike (依司马伊利·斯迪克)
This archive preserves the source records documenting the case of Yisimayili Sidike (依司马伊利·斯迪克), a Uyghur farmer born October 1, 1964, detained in June 2017 and sentenced to a combined 20 years’ imprisonment.
Source records
- Political-prisoner database record — Chinese Human Rights Defenders (tenchu.org), entered April 25, 2021: The database’s full record gives the name as 依司马伊利. 斯迪克 (“YI SI MA YI LI . SI DI KE”), male, born October 1, 1964, Uyghur, farmer; last taken June 19, 2017; charge field “Other”; sentence 20 years; release date May 28, 2038; location Kuitun Prison of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps 7th Agricultural Division (Karamay). The biography section states he was detained on June 19, 2017, sentenced to 10 years by the Yingjisha County Court on June 24, 2017 for advocating extremism, then given an additional 13 years by a Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps court for inciting ethnic hatred and disrupting supervision order, the sentences combined to 20 years with a 10,000-yuan fine. Database search page (recognized human-rights monitoring organization; query name=依司马伊利. 斯迪克). Caveat: the biography includes the compilers’ interpretive remarks; presented in the profile as reported, not as established fact.
- “骇人听闻 维吾尔农民因宣扬极端主义被判刑20年” — 万维读者网 (creaders.net), July 30, 2020: An aggregated China-watch article summarizing the rights-defense-network (维权网) report of July 28, 2020: a Uyghur farmer, born October 1, 1964, detained June 19, 2017, sentenced to 10 years by the Yingjisha court for advocating extremism five days later, then reported by a fellow prisoner and given an additional 13 years by a Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps court, combined into a 20-year term ending May 28, 2038. Original article (independent Chinese-language media, republishing the 维权网 report).
- Rights-defense-network monthly report, Issue 131 — August 31, 2026: Lists “Yisimayili.Sidike (Uyghur)” among 13 people sentenced to 20 years. Caveat: name + ethnicity + sentence only; all case detail comes from the sources above.
Contradictions and gaps
No contradictions found between the sources; they describe the same person and case. The original 维权网 July 28, 2020 article could not be located directly (it survives via the creaders.net republication and the database record’s citation). No officially published court judgment or state-media mention was located. No information was found on any appeal, retrial, or change of facility after the 2021 database entry.
Not opened for direct verification: a Uyghur Human Rights Project Chinese-account social-media post cited by the database record is listed here for provenance only; it was not read directly.
Profile: Yisimayili Sidike (依司马伊利·斯迪克)