Additional Name(s): ئىمىن داموللام

Gender: Male

Current Location: Xinjiang

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 18 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Sentencing: May//2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Pilgrimage

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Imin Damollam

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Imin Damollam is imprisoned for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.

On an unspecified date, authorities detained Damollam, former Keriya People’s Political Consultative Conference deputy chair and imam at a Keriya mosque, after accusing him of giving money to "separatists" who went on Hajj in 2016.

In May 2017, a court in Hotan (Hetian) prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) sentenced Damollam to 18 years in prison on unspecified charges. Damollam's sentence came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in 2017.

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