Additional Name(s): Shirin'ay Tohti, شىرىنئاي توختى
Gender: Female
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Shirinay Tohti
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Shirinay Tohti is detained for her ethnoreligious activity.
In 2017, public security officials in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Tohti, a clothing industry entrepreneur, reportedly for telling family outside of China of the arrest of her sister, Qelbinur Tohti, who was detained in relation to her performance of religious rites at funerals and refusal to comply with official demands to change her three children’s names. Tohti's arrest came amid mass detentions of ethnic minorities in XUAR.
Other members of Tohti's family, including her brother-in-law and another sister have also been subjected to detention.
Publicly Available Information:
- "Shirinay Tohti" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
Additional Name(s): Memet Tursun, مەمەتتۇرسۇن ئىسلام
Gender: Male
Current Location: Kashgar
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Sentence: 6 Years' Imprisonment
Current Status: Unknown
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Reason for Persecution: Attending a Religious Gathering or Meeting Ethnoreligious Identity Giving, Sharing, & Listening to a Religious Speech
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Memettursun Islam
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Memettursun Islam was imprisoned for his religious activity.
In 2017, authorities detained Islam. Islam's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR in 2017.
On an unspecified date, Islam was sentenced to six years in prison reportedly in relation to his attendance of a sermon at a local mosque in 2013.
Islam's sentence should have ended.
Several of Islam's family members, including his brothers-in-law and mother-in-law, have been subjected to detention.
Publicly Available Information:
- "Memettursun Islam" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
Additional Name(s): يۈسۈپ توختى
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Yusup Tohti
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Yusup Tohti is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In 2017, authorities detained Tohti reportedly in relation to the detention of his wife, Patem Rozi, who was arrested for “illegal religious preaching” and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Tohti's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR in 2017.
Tohti had one child who reportedly died while he was in detention.
Publicly Available Information:
- "Yusup Tohti" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)