Mahinur Qasim

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Mahinur Qasim (Uyghur: ماھىنۇر قاسىم; Chinese: 玛依努尔·哈斯木; pinyin: Mǎyīnǔ'ěr Hāsīmù; August 15, 1929 – February 28, 2021), also spelled Maynor Kasim and Mah-e-Noor Qasim, was a Uyghur political leader in Xinjiang, China and the widow of Ehmetjan Qasimi, a prominent Xinjiang revolutionary leader.

Early life

Mahinur Qasim, born in 1929, was a native of

People's Republic of China, Mahinur Qasim remained active in public life.[1]

Public service

In 1951, she became the deputy director of the Women's Federation in the Ili Special Direct.[1] In 1952, she became the mayor of Yining and joined the Chinese Communist Party.[1] In 1953, she became the deputy director of the General Office of the Xinjiang Provincial Government and the director of the Women's Federation in Xinjiang.[1] She was a delegate to the Second Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, elected in 1954, and the Second and Third National People's Congress, elected in 1959 and 1964.[2]

She was purged and persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and then rehabilitated thereafter.[1] In the 1980s and 1990s, she served as a vice chair of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th All-China Women's Federation,[3] and was elected to the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress in 1988.[2] She has been a prominent advocate of women and children's rights.[4] She retired in 2003 and has continued to speak at women's rights events.[1][5]

Memoirs

Her memoir of her husband, Remembering Ehmetijan 《回忆阿合买提江》, was published in 2011.[1] A Pictorial Memoir of the Wife of Ehmetijan Qasimi, Leader of the Three Districts Revolution 《三区革命头号领导人阿合买提江夫人的回忆图册》 was published in October 2002.[6]

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