The circumstances of this are very strange. What's alarming is that I don't understand why the government would take such extreme action on someone who doesn't appear to be active in any political capacity. At least not active enough to come up in any search engine.
Upon further digging, I did find more information this notion of 'two-faceness' from an article in 2017, around the time he was arrested:
In a commentary published by the official Xinjiang Daily on Monday, Yasin Sidik, a senior official from Kashgar city in Xinjiang, urged fellow ethnic Uighur cadres to “bravely stand at the forefront against separatism”.
“We must stand out and reveal ‘two-faced’ people, thoroughly seize bad elements out from the masses, clean them out,” he said.
Upon further digging, I did find more information this notion of 'two-faceness' from an article in 2017, around the time he was arrested:
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-security/f...
In a commentary published by the official Xinjiang Daily on Monday, Yasin Sidik, a senior official from Kashgar city in Xinjiang, urged fellow ethnic Uighur cadres to “bravely stand at the forefront against separatism”.
“We must stand out and reveal ‘two-faced’ people, thoroughly seize bad elements out from the masses, clean them out,” he said.
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