Additional Name(s): Memet Ismail, مەمەت ئىسمائىل, 买买提·司马义

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Current Status: Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Pilgrimage

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Memet Ismayil

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Memet Ismayil was detained for his ethnoreligious identity and for going on pilgrimage. 

In late 2017, authorities in Turpan municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Ismayil, his wife, and another relative, reportedly in relation to their going on pilgrimage to Mecca in the past. Ismayil's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR.

In early 2019, Ismayil was released from detention.

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Additional Name(s): ئايشەمخان ياسىن, 阿义夏木汗·亚森

Gender: Female

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Current Status: Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Pilgrimage

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Ayshemhan Yasin

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Ayshemhan Yasin was detained for her ethnoreligious identity and for going on pilgrimage. 

In late 2017, authorities in Turpan municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Yasin, her husband, and another relative, reportedly in relation to their going on pilgrimage in the past. Yasin's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR.

In early 2019, Yasin was released from detention.

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Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 6 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: April/16/2008

Date of Sentencing: March/24/2009

Current Status: Unknown

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Activity Religious Instruction & Teaching

Nature of Charges: Separatism

Mutellip Rozi

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Mutellip Rozi was imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity and for teaching religion.

On April 16, 2008, Ghulja county police detained 12 Uyghur men, including Rozi, reportedly for teaching religion to children.

On March 24, 2009, the Ili Intermediate People's Court sentenced Rozi to six years in prison for “splitting the state” (Art. 103 CCL). 

Rozi's sentence should have ended in April 2014.

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