Sattar Sawut

Sattar Sawut (Uyghur: ساتتار ساۋۇت;[1] Chinese: 沙塔尔·沙吾提;[2] born November 1948) is a Chinese former politician of Uyghur ethnicity. He was the former director of the Xinjiang Education Department. He was arrested in 2017. Later, he was regarded by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a "two-faced person" who supported the independence movement through editing textbooks.[3]

Sattar Sawut
ساتتار ساۋۇت
Director of the Xinjiang Education Department
In office
20 July 2000 – 2008
DeputyAlimjan Memtimin
Succeeded byTursun Ibrahim
Personal details
BornNovember 1948 (age 74)
Toksun County, Xinjiang, China
Political partyCommunist Party of China (expelled)
Alma materXinjiang Institute of Technology
Occupationpolitician

Sattar Sawut was sentenced to death for his role in the publication of school textbooks said to incite interethnic hatred. Five other Uyghurs were convicted in the same case. The former head of the local justice department was also sentenced to death for conspiring with Muslim separatists [4]

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References
  1. "يالقۇن روزى بىلەن ساتتار ساۋۇتنىڭ "بۆلگۈنچىلىك" بىلەن ئەيىبلىنىپ جازالانغانلىقى دەلىللەندى". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  2. "新疆打掉教育系统以沙塔尔·沙吾提为首的分裂国家犯罪集团". 人民网. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  3. "Three Uyghur Intellectuals Jailed for Separatism, Political Study Film Reveals". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  4. "Former senior Xinjiang official sentenced to death for separatism".
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