Aykol

On August 7, on the eve of the Eid holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, police in Aykol township, Aksu prefecture, reportedly sought to prevent residents from another village from engaging in cross-village worship,¹⁰⁵ and detained several Uyghur men for engaging in "illegal religious activities."

2013 October 10, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Annual Report 2013, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 169

Authorities in Aykol township of Aksu city (in Chinese, Akesu) city allowed only Uyghurs over the age of 50 to participate in worship services during the holiday on July 20-23, the officer from the district’s police station told RFA last week.[...]The senior police officer in Aykol told RFA that more than 170 Uyghurs accused of violating regulations regarding Eid prayers are currently being held in custody, though he said he could not comment on their whereabouts or whether they were being detained in “re-education” camps or detention centers.[...]Following this year’s Eid prayers in Aksu, police checked the identification cards and searched the homes of those who attended prayer services to verify that they were over 50 years old, said an Aykol resident who declined to be named for safety reasons.

2021 July 30, Shohret Hoshur, Roseanne Gerin, “Police in China’s XUAR Question Uyghurs For Attending Eid Prayers Without Permission”, in Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2021

August 2013 was a particularly violent month. On the eve of the Id al Fitr festival that signifies the end of Ramadan, clashes between police and local Uyghurs in Kargilik (Yecheng) County, which lies between Kashgar and Khotan, left between fifteen and twenty-two Uyghurs dead and there was further violence that month at Aykol, a township in Poskam (Zepu) County to the south of Yarkand, also at the end of Ramadan.

2019, Michael Dillon, Xinjiang in the Twenty-First Century: Islam, Ethnicity and Resistance, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 264