Hanerik

alternative Khaneriq

1. A town in Hotan County, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.

   In 2013, particularly serious incidents occurred on 24 April in Bachu outside Kashgar, in several separate villages in Lukqun Township near Turpan on 26 June, in Hanerik in Hotan Prefecture two days later and in August in Kargilik in Kashgar Prefecture.

   2021, Kunal Mukherjee, Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Conflict Across Asia, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=4LoYEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT222

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   But residents say the Hanerik shooting victims were unarmed civilians simply seeking an end to heavy-handed policing. The seeds of the confrontation were planted in mid-June, when the authorities detained Mettursun Metseydi, the young imam of an unauthorized mosque on the rural edge of Hanerik. Mr. Metseydi had been drawing increasing crowds with sermons that condemned the government’s religious restrictions, most pointedly on head coverings.

   2013 August 26, Andrew Jacobs, “Over News of Clash, a Shroud of Silence in Xinjiang”, in New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2013

   In a June 2013 clash between the authorities and protesters in Hanerik township near Hotan in the south of the region, official news source Tianshan Net reported that no one had died as a result of the clashes. Yet Radio Free Asia, citing local officials, reported that security forces had fired on demonstrating Uighurs rather than responding with restraint to civilian violence.

   2013 December 17, Alim Seytoff, “China's darkest corner”, in Index on Censorship, →DOI, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2021

   On March 21, 2015, authorities in Hanerik (Han'airike) township, Hotan county, reportedly sentenced Uyghur religious scholar Qamber Amber to nine years' imprisonment, following a public trial, for defying official instruction to stop giving speeches at religious ceremonies and for otherwise "refusing to cooperate" with authorities.

   2015, “Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report 2015”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China, page 286

   The other narrative, reported by Radio Free Asia, suggested that the group, who came from Hanerik township in Khotan prefecture in Xinjiang's far south, had sought to leave after a Chinese 'crackdown' in the area following a violent incident in June 2013 when police had fired on Uyghurs protesting against the arrest of a religious leader in the township.

   2018, “Introduction”, in Michael Clarke, editor, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China: Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11

   Synonyms: Han'airike, Han-ai-jih-k’o