Additional Name(s): Qelbinur Toxti, قەلبىنۇر توختى

Gender: Female

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Date of Detainment: August//2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Activity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Qelbinur Tohti

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Qelbinur Tohti is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity. 

In August 2017, public security officials in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Tohti, a clothing industry entrepreneur, reportedly in relation to her performance of religious rites at funerals and refusal to comply with official demands to change her three children’s names. Her arrest came amid mass detentions of ethnic minorities in XUAR.

Tohti's family, including her husband and two sisters, have also been subjected to detention. 

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Additional Name(s): Muhemmet'eli Atawulla, Memeteli Atawulla, مۇھەممەتئېلى ئاتاۋۇللا

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: August//2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Memet'eli Atawulla

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Memet'eli Atawulla is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.

In August 2017, authorities detained Atawulla and held him at a "political reeducation" center months after his brother, Rozimemet Atawulla, was detained for "religious extremism" and sent to the same center. Their detentions were reportedly part of a wave of detentions of Uyghurs in Hotan County in 2017 and 2018.  

Atawulla was reportedly hospitalized at some point due to detention conditions. 

Other members of Atawulla's family, including his mother, and brother-in-law, have also been subjected to detention.

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Additional Name(s): Peyzohre Omerjan, پەيزۆھرە ئۆمەر

Gender: Female

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 20 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: September/5/2017

Date of Sentencing: June//2018

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Belief

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Peyzohre Omer

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Peyzohre Omer is imprisoned for her ethnoreligious identity and religious belief and activity. 

On September 5, 2017, public security officials in Ili (Yili) Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Omer and sent her to a "political reeducation" center reportedly in relation to her religious beliefs. Omer's arrest came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR.

In June 2018, Omer was reportedly sentenced to 20 years in prison on unspecified charges. 

Omer's husband and son were also detained.

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