{"id":5656,"date":"2005-12-17T17:25:55","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T00:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/12\/17\/uyghur-dissidents-employees-freed-after-seven-months-in-a-chinese-jail-radio-free-asia\/"},"modified":"2005-12-17T17:25:55","modified_gmt":"2005-12-18T00:25:55","slug":"uyghur-dissidents-employees-freed-after-seven-months-in-a-chinese-jail-radio-free-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/12\/uyghur-dissidents-employees-freed-after-seven-months-in-a-chinese-jail-radio-free-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Uyghur Dissident&#8217;s Employees Freed After Seven Months in a Chinese Jail &#8211; Radio Free Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/releases\/2005\/12\/16\/uyghur_akide\/\">Radio Free Asia:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chinese authorities have released two officials working in Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer&#8217;s company in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xinjiang\">Xinjiang<\/a> after holding them without charge for seven months.<\/p>\n<p>Company secretary Ruzi Mamat and Kadeer&#8217;s former assistant Aysham Kerim were freed Dec. 14 and allowed to return home, Kadeer told RFA&#8217;s Uyghur service.<\/p>\n<p>Both were arrested May 11, and witnesses said at the time that Aysham Kerim, the mother of a seven-month-old infant, was dragged by her hair into a police car.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the northwesternmost part of China, gave no explanation for their release. 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