Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Sentence: 15 Years' Imprisonment
Date of Detainment: January//2017
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Travel Abroad
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Qurbanjan Turdibaqi
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Qurbanjan Turdibaqi is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity.
In January 2017, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Turdibaqi after returning to China from Turkey. His detention came amid a government campaign in XUAR of arbitrary mass internment of Uyghurs and others for reasons including ethnic identity and travel abroad, particularly to Muslim-majority countries such as Turkey.
On an unspecified date, Turdibaqi was reportedly sentenced to 15 years in prison on unspecified charges.
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Photo attributed to Xinjiang Victims Database
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"Qurbanjan Turdibaqi" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
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"Qurban Turdibaqi" Xinjiang Victims Database
Gender: Female
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 Detainment: September//2016
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Travel Abroad
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Turnisa Metomur
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Turnisa Metomur is imprisoned for her ethnoreligious identity.
In September 2016, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Metomur after returning to China from Turkey. His detention came amid a government campaign in XUAR of arbitrary mass internment of Uyghurs and others for reasons including ethnic identity and travel abroad, particularly to Muslim-majority countries such as Turkey.
On an unspecified date, Metomur was reportedly sentenced to 10 years in prison on unspecified charges.
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- "Turnisa Metomur" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
Additional Name(s): يالقۇن روزى, 亚力坤·肉孜, 牙里坤·肉孜
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Sentence: 15 Years' Imprisonment
Date of Sentencing: January//2018
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity
Nature of Charges: Subversion
Yalqun Rozi
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Yalqun Rozi is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity.
In late 2016, authorities in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Rozi, a literary critic, writer, and former editor of the official Xinjiang Education Press, reportedly in relation to his work starting in 2001 as part of an official XUAR committee revising Uyghur-language textbooks for use in XUAR schools. Rozi's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR for reasons including expression of ethnic or cultural identity.
In January 2018, Rozi was reportedly sentenced to 15 years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power.”
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Photo attributed to Xinjiang Victims Database
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"Yalqun Rozi" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
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"Yalqun Rozi" Xinjiang Victims Database