Free Alim Abdureyim and Ablikim Abdureyim

When Rebiya Kadeer was elected president of the Uighur American Association in May of 2006, the chinese government confiscated all the financial records of the family business. In June of 2006, her sons Alim Abdureyim and Ablikim Abdureyim, both managing directors of the business, were arrested and tortured in detention. Ablikim Abdureyim was reported to have been taken out of the detention center on a stretcher. Her oldest son Kahar Abdureyim, who had no role in the family business, was arrested for tax evasion.  In secret trials held out of public view, Ablikim Abdureyim was sentenced to 9 years imprisonment; Alim to 7 years.It is widely believed that Ablikim received the harsher sentence because he refused to sign a Cconfession to his crimes.Later in 2007, the family business was confiscated by the chinese government.

• August 1999 Rebiya Kadeer arrested in Urumqui, East Turkestan. Charged with 'providing secret information to foreigners". She was planning to meet with the US Congressional Research Service
• March 2000 Eight year prison sentence after a secret trial in Urumqi city people's court
• March 2005 Released, from hospital. Flies to the United States. At her release, chinese authorities warn her not to work on Uighur political issues, because "her children and her businesses would be finished"
• April 2005 Begins to work to publicize plight of the Uighur ethnic minority
• May 2005 chinese government confiscates all financial records of Kadeer business holdings. Without records, it is impossible for Kadeer family to defend itself against tax evasion allegations that are to follow
• May 2006 Rebiya Kadeer elected president of Uighur American Association
• June 2006 Rebiya Kadeer's sons Ablikim Abdureyim and Alim Abdureyim (managing director of Akida Trading Company, the family business) are arrested. They are tortured while in detention. Oldest son Kahar Abdureyim, who has no role in the family business, is arrested on charges of tax evasion
• October 2006 Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. She is denounced by chinese government as a terrorist
• November 2006 Ablikim Abdureyim sentenced to 9 years imprisonment for "engaging in secessionist activities". He has no access to legal counsel, and his family are not informed of the trial in advance. Ablikim Abdureyim is seen taken from the detention facility, unconscious, on a stretcher. Kahar Abdureyim is fined for tax evasion.
• November 2006 Rebiya Kadeer elected as president of World Uighur Congress.
• April 2007 Alim Abdureyim sentenced to 7 years in prison for tax evasion, and 'attempting to split the state'. Oldest son Kahar Abdureyim is fined 100,000 yuan ($12,500.00) for "Tax Evasion" (he had no role in the family business), and is forced to oversee the liquidation of the Kadeer family business holdings to pay massive government fines. He is forced to certify "the legitimacy of the fines imposed". It is assumed that the chinese government either wishes to entrap him, or to add a final air of legitimacy to their liquidation of the Kadeer family businesses.
• September 2007 US House of Representatives passes resolution 497 in support of Rebiya Kadeer's children
• October 2007 Rebiya Kadeer and family are mentioned by President George Bush in a speech on human rights in china

Please write to your parlimentarian, senator or congressman. Tell them that you are alarmed that Ablikim Abdureyim has been denied adequate medical care while in prison. Ask him to investigate allegations that Ablikim Abdureyim has been tortured while in prison, for refusing to sign a forced confession. 

ALIM ABDUREYIM
xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region Prison No. 3
44 luyuan St.
urumqi
xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region
people's Republic of china
Postal Code 830006

ABLIKIM ABDUREYIM
xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region Prison No. 4
kashi east Rd.
urumqi
xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region
Postal Code 830013
people's republic of china