Perhat Tursun (Uyghur: پەرھات تۇرسۇن; Chinese: 帕尔哈提·吐尔逊; born January 1969) is a Uyghur writer and poet. He is considered to be one of the most notable modern Uyghur writers. In January 2018, he was seized by Chinese authorities from Urumqi and was later reported to have been sentenced to 16 years of imprisonment. Biography. Perhat was born in 1969 in Artush, Xinjiang. He began writing poetry in middle school before later turning to prose.
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