Sattar Sawut

Sattar Sawut
ساتتار ساۋۇت

Director of the Xinjiang Education Department
In office 20 July 2000 – 2008

Succeeded by

Personal details
Born	November 1948 (age 73) Toksun County, Xinjiang, China
Nationality	Chinese
Political party	Communist Party of China (expelled)
Alma mater	Xinjiang Institute of Technology
Occupation	politician

Sattar Sawut (Uighur: ساتتار ساۋۇت;^[1] Chinese: 沙塔尔·沙吾提;^[2] born November 1948) is a former Uyghur politician in Xinjiang.

Sattar was the former director of the Xinjiang Education Department. He was arrested in 2017. Later, he was regarded by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a "two-faced person" who supported the independence movement through editing textbooks.^[3]

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^ "يالقۇن روزى بىلەن ساتتار ساۋۇتنىڭ "بۆلگۈنچىلىك" بىلەن ئەيىبلىنىپ جازالانغانلىقى دەلىللەندى". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
^ "新疆打掉教育系统以沙塔尔·沙吾提为首的分裂国家犯罪集团". 人民网. Retrieved 2021-04-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Three Uyghur Intellectuals Jailed for Separatism, Political Study Film Reveals". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 2021-04-12.

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