Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Sentence: 10 Years' Imprisonment
Date of Sentencing: April//2009
Current Status: Unknown
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Activity Religious Business Activity
Nature of Charges: Separatism
Qurbanjan Abdusemet
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Qurbanjan Abdusemet was imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity and religiously oriented business activity.
In 2009, authorities detained Abdusemet and his brother reportedly for engaging in religious activities and selling state-sanctioned religious publications from other provinces.
In April 2009, a court in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region sentenced Abdusemet to ten years in prison for “splitting the state” (Art. 103 CCL).
Abdusemet's sentence should have ended in May 2019.
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"Qurbanjan Abdusemet" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
Additional Name(s): 努尔买买提·买买提依明
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Sentence: 17 Years' Imprisonment
Date of Detainment: May//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 Activity
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Nurmemet Memetimin
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Nurmemet Memetimin is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity and religious activity.
In May 2018, authorities detained Memetimin and sent him to an internment camp reportedly in relation to his religious activity. Memetimin's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR.
In May 2019, a Xinjiang court reportedly sentenced Memetimin to 17 years in prison on unspecified charges.
Memetimin is married with two children.
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Photo attributed to Xinjiang Victims Database
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"Nurmemet Memetimin" Xinjiang Victims Database
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