Heyrisa Ehmet

Additional Name(s): Xeyrisa Exmet, Heyrinsa Ehmet, خەيرىسا ئەخمەت

Gender: Female

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 Giving, Sharing, & Listening to a Religious Speech

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Heyrisa Ehmet

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Heyrisa Ehmet is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.

In 2017, authorities detained Ehmet in Tomosteng town, Yarkand (Shache) County, Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), alongside dozens of others Uyghurs, reportedly in relation to their organizing religious sermons unauthorized by authorities. Ehmet's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR in 2017.

Ehmet's sisters were also detained.

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