Additional Name(s): Mu'ertiza Maimaiti, مۇرتىزا مەمەت

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 16 Years' Imprisonment

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Distributing Religious Materials Ethnoreligious Identity Online Activity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Murtiza Memet

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Murtiza Memet is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity.

On an unspecified date believed to have been in 2018, authorities detained Memet for reportedly sending “illegal” content over WeChat. He was reportedly sent to a internment camp in Uchturpan. Abdurahman's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

On an unspecified date, Memet was reportedly sentenced to 16 years in prison on unspecified charges.

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Additional Name(s): ھەمدۇللا ئابدۇراھمان, 海木都拉·阿布都热合曼

Gender: Male

Current Location: Xinjiang

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Date of Detainment: January//2019

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Hemdulla Abdurahman

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Hemdulla Abdurahman is detained for his ethnoreligious identity. 

In January 2019, authorities detained Abdurahman, a retired linguist who previously worked at the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) Ethnic Language Work Committee in Urumqi municipality, XUAR. Relatives living abroad lost contact with Abdurahman shortly after he told them that his brother had been detained for performing prayers.

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Additional Name(s): Erbolat Qusman, 叶尔保拉提·胡斯曼

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Kazakh

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: Yes

Reports of Medical Neglect: Yes

Date of Detainment: October/27/2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: House Arrest

Reason for Persecution: Religious Activity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Erbolat Kusmanuly

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Erbolat Kusmanuly is under house arrest in relation to his ethnoreligious identity.

On October 27, 2017, local authorities in Altay prefecture detained Kusmanuly, a restaurateur. Kusmanuly's wife proposed several reasons why she thinks he was arrested, including not drinking or smoking, being in contact with a religious group, and asking for his passport to be returned.

On December 29, 2018, Kusmanuly was released from detention and placed under house arrest.

Kusmanuly was reportedly denied adequate medical care for his pain in his kidneys that developed in March 2019.

There also allegations that Kusmanuly was tortured during a 2020 police interrogation.

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