Gulmira Imin, a poet and Uyghur-language website moderator from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2010 for “splittism, leaking state secrets, and organizing an illegal demonstration.” In June 2021, Imin’s life sentence was reduced to 19 years and 8 months for a statement of contrition that activists say was forced.
