Additional Name(s): Hornisahan Osman, ھۆرنىساخان ئوسمان

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 Possession of Religious Materials Religious Appearance

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Hornisaxan Osman

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Hornisaxan Osman is detained for her ethnoreligious identity.

In 2017, authorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Osman and her two sons and sent them to a "political reeducation" center amid mass detentions of ethnic minorities in XUAR.  One of Osman's relatives said that he believed some of his relatives were were detained either for growing beards or having religious materials at their homes or religious content on their phones.

Osman's husband was also detained in May 2017.

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