Definition of "Aketao"

Aisha Awazi, Uyghur imam (prayer leader) of a mosque in Aketao, strongly critical of the Communists as “pagans.” According to the Xinjiang Legal News, he was arrested in Aketao County in July 1996.

1998, James D. Seymour, Richard Anderson, New Ghosts Old Ghosts Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China‎, page 124

An ethnic Kyrgyz officer at the Charlong Township Police Station, in Kizilsu Kirghiz’s Akto (Aketao) county, recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service that hundreds of residents of the town’s Payiz village—a Kyrgyz-populated area of more than 1,500 people—have been sent to the camps.

2018 December 4, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Holding Hundreds From Kyrgyz Village in ‘Political’ Re-education Camps”, in Radio Free Asia‎, archived from the original on 2018-12-05‎