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 Religious Activity Religious Business Activity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Rejepniyaz Hebibulla

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Rejepniyaz Hebibulla is detained for his ethnoreligious identity and religiously oriented business. 

In late 2017 or early 2018, authorities detained Hebibulla and sent him to an internment camp possibly in relation to his religious activity and his business producing and selling Halal food. 

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Additional Name(s): Mutallip Sidiq Qahiri, مۇتەللىپ سىدىق قاھىرى, 穆特里甫·斯迪克·卡依日

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Unspecified

Health Concerns: Yes

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 4 Years' House Arrest + 2 Years, 6 Months' Imprisonment

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: House Arrest

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Scholarship

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Mutellip Sidiq Qahiri

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Mutellip Sidiq Qahiri is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity and religious scholarship.

In or around November 2018, authorities in Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Qahiri, a retired professor, reportedly in relation to the "ethnocultural subject matter of his research and publications" which focused on Uyghur names.  Qahiri had previously done research on Arabic names in Egypt, and in 2010, he released an encyclopedia of Uyghur names.

In March 2019, Qahiri was reportedly released from an internment camp.

In early 2020, the Kashgar Intermediate People's Court reportedly sentenced Qahiri to two years and six months in prison.  The sentence was reportedly suspended for four years.  The court ordered that Qahiri remain under house arrest until it goes into effect.

Qahiri reportedly requires daily medication for unspecified reasons. 

Qahiri reportedly has five children. 

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Additional Name(s): 沙地克·艾力

Gender: Male

Current Location: Tumshuq Prison

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: June//2018

Date of Sentencing: May//2019

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Sadir Eli

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Sadir Eli is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity.

In June 2018, authorities detained Eli under unclear circumstances. Eli's arrest came amid mass detentions of ethnic, mostly Muslim minorities in Xianjiang. He was later sent to a reeducation camp.

On an unknown date believed to be in May 2019, Eli was reportedly sentenced to 20 years in prison on unspecified charges.

Eli is married with one child.

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