{"id":75525,"date":"2025-12-05T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/dec\/05\/uyghur-thursun-brothers-fled-china-jailed-india-xinjiang-genocide"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:00:40","slug":"how-three-uyghur-brothers-fled-china-to-spend-12-years-in-an-indian-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75525","title":{"rendered":"How three Uyghur brothers fled China \u2013 to spend 12 years in an Indian prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrested in 2013 on India\u2019s Himalayan border after fleeing Beijing\u2019s \u2018genocide\u2019 against Muslims in Xinjiang, the siblings have been imprisoned indefinitely ever since then<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of 12 June 2013, according to court documents, three \u201cChinese intruders\u201d were arrested by the Indian army in Sultan Chusku, a remote and uninhabited desert area in the mountainous northern region of Ladakh.<\/p>\n<p>The three Thursun brothers \u2013 Adil, 23, Abdul Khaliq, 22 and Salamu, 20 \u2013 had found themselves in an area of unmarked and disputed borders after a 13-day journey by bus and foot over the rugged Himalayan terrain through China\u2019s Xinjiang province, which borders Ladakh.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/dec\/05\/uyghur-thursun-brothers-fled-china-jailed-india-xinjiang-genocide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrested in 2013 on India\u2019s Himalayan border after fleeing Beijing\u2019s \u2018genocide\u2019 against Muslims in Xinjiang, the siblings have been imprisoned indefinitely ever since thenOn the evening of 12 June 2013, according to court documents, three \u201cChinese intr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,59,53,62,447,371,61,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-india","category-islam","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75532,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75525\/revisions\/75532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}