On August 7, on the eve of the Eid holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, police inAykol township, Aksu prefecture, reportedly sought to prevent residents from another village from engaging in cross-village worship,¹⁰⁵ and detained several Uyghur men for engaging in "illegal religious activities."
2020 September 17, “Full Text: Employment and Labor Rights in Xinjiang”, in huaxia, editor,Xinhua News Agency[2], archived fromthe original on20 September 2020:
A poor villager named Habibulla Mamut fromAykol Town of Aksu City applied for a position with an electrical appliance company in Hangzhou at a local job fair, was offered the post, and earned RMB55,000 that year, raising himself and his family out of poverty.
2021 July 30,Shohret Hoshur, Roseanne Gerin, “Police in China’s XUAR Question Uyghurs For Attending Eid Prayers Without Permission”, inRadio Free Asia[3], archived fromthe original on30 July 2021:
Authorities inAykol township of Aksu city (in Chinese, Akesu) city allowed only Uyghurs over the age of 50 to participate in worship services during the holiday on July 20-23, the officer from the district’s police station told RFA last week.[...]The senior police officer inAykol told RFA that more than 170 Uyghurs accused of violating regulations regarding Eid prayers are currently being held in custody, though he said he could not comment on their whereabouts or whether they were being detained in “re-education” camps or detention centers.[...]Following this year’s Eid prayers in Aksu, police checked the identification cards and searched the homes of those who attended prayer services to verify that they were over 50 years old, said anAykol resident who declined to be named for safety reasons.
2019, Michael Dillon,Xinjiang in the Twenty-First Century: Islam, Ethnicity and Resistance[4],→ISBN,→OCLC,page264:
August 2013 was a particularly violent month. On the eve of the Id al Fitr festival that signifies the end of Ramadan, clashes between police and local Uyghurs in Kargilik (Yecheng) County, which lies between Kashgar and Khotan, left between fifteen and twenty-two Uyghurs dead and there was further violence that month atAykol, a township in Poskam (Zepu) County to the south of Yarkand, also at the end of Ramadan.
