{"id":7980,"date":"2019-02-11T06:26:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T22:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=7980"},"modified":"2019-02-11T08:42:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T00:42:52","slug":"asia-selected-china-india-abdurehim-heyit-chinese-video-disproves-uighur-musicians-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=7980","title":{"rendered":"Abdurehim Heyit Chinese video disproves Uighur musician&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cri-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7979\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cri-1024x512.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cri-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cri-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cri-600x300.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cri.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> A screenshot of the footage appearing to show Mr Heyit <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> BEIJING, &nbsp;Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) \u2014&nbsp; Chinese state media have released a video appearing to show a Uighur musician previously reported to have died in a detention camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video, dated 10 February, features a man said to be Abdurehim Heyit stating that he is in &#8220;good health&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey earlier called on China to close the camps following reports of his death. Up to a million Uighurs are reportedly being detained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Uighurs have questioned the video&#8217;s authenticity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nury Turkel, chairman of the US-based Uyghur Human Rights Project, told the BBC that some aspects of the video were &#8220;suspicious&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Uighurs are a Muslim Turkic-speaking minority based in the north-western Xinjiang region of China, which has come under intense surveillance by Chinese authorities. Their language is close to Turkish and a significant number of Uighurs have fled to Turkey from China in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, &nbsp;Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) \u2014&nbsp; Chinese state media have released a video appearing to show a Uighur musician previously reported to have died in a detention camp. The video, dated 10 February, features a man said to be Abdurehim Heyit stating that he is in &#8220;good health&#8221;. Turkey earlier called on China to close the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":7983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}