Helil Hashim

Additional Name(s): خېلىل ھاشىم

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 19 Years' Imprisonment

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Instruction & Teaching Travel Abroad

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Helil Hashim

Extra Bio Info:

Helil Hashim is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity.

In 2018, authorities in Ghulja (Yining) city, Ili (Yili) Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Hashim, a businessman, reportedly in relation to his previous travel to Egypt and to his sending his son to attend extracurricular religious classes when he was in primary school in the mid-to-late 2000s. Hashim's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR in 2017 and 2018.

Later in 2018, Hashim was sentenced to 19 years in prison reportedly in relation to "endangering state security."

Hashim's wife and son were also detained.

Publicly Available Information:

"Helil Hashim" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)