 In 1992, it was proposed that 500,000 persons displaced by the Three Gorges Dam project, primarily Han Chinese, would be relocated to Kashgar Prefecture.The plans met with widespread criticism in Xinjiang and internationally and were dropped.After a lengthy detention, in December 2009, Alimujiang Yimiti / Alimjan Yimit, Uyghur leader of an unregistered Christian church, was sentenced to fifteen years in jail by the Kashgar Prefecture Intermediate People's Court for "illegally providing state secrets or intelligence to foreign entities".