Additional Name(s): 巴哈尔姑丽·阿塔伍拉

Gender: Female

Current Location: Beshkent Party School, Yarkand, Kashgar

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Date of Detainment: October/9/2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Attending a Religious Gathering or Meeting Ethnoreligious Identity Giving, Sharing, & Listening to a Religious Speech

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Bahargul Atawulla

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Bahargul Atawulla is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity. 

On October 9, 2017, authorities reportedly detained Atawulla for attending an illegal religious gathering and listening to religious teachings. Atawulla was sent to Beshkent Party School, a reeducation camp, in Yarkand, Kashgar. Atawulla's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

Atawulla is married.

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Additional Name(s): Mamat Ablat

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Health Concerns: Mental health issues

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 16 or 17 Years' Imprisonment

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Activity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Memet Ablet

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Memet Ablet is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity and religious activity.

In early 2018,authorities arrested Ablet, a businessperson and shop owner, reportedly in relation to his religious activity.  He was reportedly briefly detained in 2015 with several others while at a local mosque.

On an unspecified date, Ablet was reportedly sentenced to 16 or 17 years in prison.

Ablet has a history of mental illness.

Ablet is married with one child.

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Additional Name(s): Shiri Memtili, شىرئەلى مەمەتئېلى

Gender: Male

Current Location: Wusu Prison

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 16 Years, 8 Months' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: November//2018

Date of Sentencing: May//2019

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Figure & Religious Leadership Role Religious Instruction & Teaching

Nature of Charges: Illegal Assembly Separatism

Shireli Memeteli

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Shireli Memeteli is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity.

In November 2018, authorities detained Memeteli, a taxi driver, reportedly for transporting a religious figure and receiving an illegal religious education.

In May 2019, a Xinjiang court sentenced him to 16 years and eight months in prison for "inciting separatism" (Art. 103 CCL) and "gathering a crowd to disturb social order" (Art. 291 CCL).

Memeteli is believed to be serving his sentence in Wusu Prison.

Memeteli has two children.

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