Additional Name(s): Weli Haji, ئابدۇۋەلى ھاجىم
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Date of Detainment: May//2018
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Humanitarian Work & Charitable Activities
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Abduweli Hajim
Extra Bio Info:
Abduweli Hajim is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.
In or around May 2018, state security officials in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Hajim and others reportedly in relation to a now-closed charitable fund founded by the brother of Hajim's business partner to support education abroad for Uyghurs. Hajim's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR.
Related Cases: Ablimit Hoshur Hajim, Abdureshit Hoshur Hajim, Hemitjan Hajim
Publicly Available Information:
- "Abduweli Hajim" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
Additional Name(s): ھېمىتجان ھاجىم
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Date of Detainment: May//2018
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Humanitarian Work & Charitable Activities
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Hemitjan Hajim
Extra Bio Info:
Hemitjan Hajim is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.
In or around May 2018, state security officials in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Hajim and others reportedly in relation to a now-closed charitable fund founded by the brother of Hajim's business partner to support education abroad for Uyghurs. Hajim's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR.
Related Cases: Ablimit Hoshur Hajim, Abduweli Hajim, Abdureshit Hoshur Hajim
Publicly Available Information:
- "Hemitjan Hajim" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
Additional Name(s): خېلىل ھاشىم
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Sentence: 19 Years' Imprisonment
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Instruction & Teaching Travel Abroad
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Helil Hashim
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Helil Hashim is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity.
In 2018, authorities in Ghulja (Yining) city, Ili (Yili) Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Hashim, a businessman, reportedly in relation to his previous travel to Egypt and to his sending his son to attend extracurricular religious classes when he was in primary school in the mid-to-late 2000s. Hashim's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR in 2017 and 2018.
Later in 2018, Hashim was sentenced to 19 years in prison reportedly in relation to "endangering state security."
Hashim's wife and son were also detained.
Publicly Available Information:
- "Helil Hashim" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)