Sattar Sawut ( ug, ساتتار ساۋۇت; ; born November 1948) is a former Uyghur politician in

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

. Sattar was the former director of the Xinjiang Education Department. He was arrested in 2017. Later, he was regarded by the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Ci ...

(CCP) as a " two-faced person" who supported the independence movement through editing textbooks. Sattar Sawut was sentenced to death for his role in the publication of school textbooks said to incite interethnic hatred. Five other Uyghurs were convicted in the same case. The former head of the local justice department was also sentenced to death for conspiring with Muslim separatists

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sattar, Sawut 1948 births Living people Chinese Muslims Chinese dissidents People's Republic of China politicians from Xinjiang Chinese Communist Party politicians from Xinjiang Uyghur politicians Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party Xinjiang University alumni People from Turpan

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