Tashpolat Tiyip (Uyghur: تاشپولات تېيىپ, romanized: Tashpolat Téyip; Chinese: 塔西甫拉提・特依拜; pinyin: tǎxīfǔlātí tèyībài; born December 1958) is a Chinese geographer of Uyghur ethnicity who was president of Xinjiang University from 2010 to 2017.[2] He was sentenced to death in a secret trial.[3]
Tashpolat Tiyip | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1958 |
| Occupation | Geographer |
Biography edit
Tashpolat enrolled at Xinjiang University in 1978 to study geography and graduated in 1983. In 1988, he went to Japan to study for a master's degree and PhD at Tokyo University of Science, where he received a Doctorate of Engineering in Applied Geography in March 1992.[4] In 1993, he was appointed as professor in the Department of Geography at Xinjiang University. In 1996, Tashpolat was appointed Vice President of Xinjiang University and in 2010 he was promoted to President of Xinjiang University and Vice Secretary of the Communist Party at the university.[3]
In November 2008, Tashpolat received an honorary doctorate from École pratique des hautes études.[5][6]
Arrest and trial edit
In March 2017, when Tashpolat was on the way to a conference in Germany, he was detained at Beijing airport, accused of being a "two-faced" person.[3] After Tashpolat's arrest he was held incommunicado and he was eventually put on trial in secret on the charge of separatism. Tashpolat was found guilty and sentenced to death, suspended for two years.[3] On 27 December 2019, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tiyip was under investigation for suspected corruption and bribery, and denied he was either tried or sentenced.[7][8]
References edit
- ^ Chudnovsky, Eugene (14 October 2019). "He was a world-famous Uighur academic, but China sentenced him to death anyway". Washington Examiner. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ "China's Targeting of Uyghur Scholars an Outrageous Abdication of the Rule of Law". 18 October 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ a b c d Anderson, Amy (22 January 2019). "A Death Sentence For a Life of Service". Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ 特依拜, 塔西甫拉提 (1992). 衛星リモートセンシングデータの画質改善と土地被覆分類精度の向上に関する研究 (PhD Thesis) (in Japanese). 東京理科大学. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
- ^ Yousafzai, Sylvie Lasserre (19 October 2018). "Chine : l'élite ouïghoure décapitée au Xinjiang" (in French). Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ Illmer, Andreas (11 October 2019). "Tashpolat Tiyip: The Uighur leading geographer who vanished in China". BBC News. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ "華否認秘密處死新疆大學前校長 Hua denies the secret execution of the former president of Xinjiang University" (in Traditional Chinese). 蘋果日報 (香港) Apple Daily (HK). 29 December 2019.
- ^ Goldkorn, Jeremy (27 December 2019). "Beijing denies executing Uyghur scholar as global concerns grow". www.supchina.com. Retrieved 27 February 2021.