Additional Name(s): Abliz Tohtihaji, Abulizi Toheti, 阿布力孜·托乎提阿吉

Gender: Male

Current Location: Pailou Prison, Yarkand

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uzbek

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 7 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: May//2017

Date of Sentencing: August//2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Activity

Nature of Charges: Illegal Assembly

Abliz Tohti

Extra Bio Info:

Abliz Tohti is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity and religious activity. 

In May 2017, authorities arrested Tohti alongside 15 other men reportedly on the charge of “illegal gathering and organizing." Tohti was member of a meshrep that had previously collected money for local religious leaders who were later arrested in 2014 on alleged "extremism" charges.  At the time, Tohti was also detained on "extremism" charges but eventually released.  He and his colleagues stopped all the meshrep's activities afterwards; however, reporting indicates that Tohti's current charges date back to the 2014 incident.

In August 2017, Tohti was sentenced to seven years in prison. 

At the time of his arrest, Tohti was an official at the Kashgar Transportation Bureau. He is a father of four.

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