Mutallip Hajim [SEP] date of death
Mutallip Hajim
Mutallip Hajim (died 2008) was a prominent Uyghur businessman from Xinjiang province in China who died while in police custody.
Life.
Hajim was a wealthy Uyghur jade trader and philanthropist. In January 2008 Hajim was taken into custody by police in Hotan. On 3 March 2008 Hajim’s body was returned to his family. Police instructed his family to bury him immediately and inform no one of his death. Hajim was thirty-eight at the time of his death. 
Xinjiang protests March 2008.
took to the streets at the weekly bazaar in Hotan. The authorities maintain tight controls on information from the area and reports of deaths or their denial could not be independently verified.
Demonstrations followed the death in custody of a wealthy Uyghur jade trader and philanthropist, Mutallip Hajim, 38. The protesters, who according to several accounts numbered around 600, began their march at the Lop bus station. An unknown number of men joined their march to the Big Bazaar shopping area, where they were surrounded by police who arrested around