Bagila was a cheerful hairdresser before she was taken to Kuytun prison in the summer of 2018. For about six months, there was no news about her, then she was allowed to call her relatives and asked for winter clothes and money as there was not adequate food in the prison. She was later sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment and transferred to the newly built prison in Ghulja in May 2021. She lost a lot of weight, and her hair was cut short in prison. Her sister, who lives in Turkey believes, like other family members, that Baglia might have been detained for previously travelling to Kazakhstan to visit relatives. Bagila has a nine-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son.
Bagila’s brother Dilshat Oralbay] (#case-SR094), and sister [Bakytgul Oralbay, are also in detention.