Aketao

The Xinjiang Legal News said Awazi was arrested in June in Aketao County. According to the newspaper, Awazi had appointed himself imam, or senior Moslem cleric, in 1992 at a mosque in Aketao, where he organised 120 Moslem activists who criticised Communist Party policies and denounced party officials as “pagans.”

1996 July 18 [1996 July 10], Andre Grabot, “PRC: Uygur Rebels Claim More Attacks on Forces in Xinjiang”, in Daily Report: China, number 96-139, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Hong Kong AFP, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65, column 1

An ethnic Kyrgyz officer at the Charlong Township Police Station, in Kizilsu Kirghiz’s Akto (Aketao) county, recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service that hundreds of residents of the town’s Payiz village—a Kyrgyz-populated area of more than 1,500 people—have been sent to the camps.

2018 December 4, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Holding Hundreds From Kyrgyz Village in ‘Political’ Re-education Camps”, in Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2018