Mahmutjan Abdurehim

Additional Name(s): Maxmutjan Abduréhim, ماھمۇتجان ئابدۇرېھىم

Gender: Male

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

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Mahmutjan Abdurehim

Extra Bio Info:

Mahmutjan Abdurehim is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.

On an unknown date believed to be in 2017, security officials in Barin (Baren) town, Peyziwat (Jiashi) county, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Abdurehim, accusing him of religious “extremism,” after he did not attend a mourning ceremony for his late grandmother-in-law. Abdurehim's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR in 2017.

Publicly Available Information:

"Mahmutjan Abdurehim" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)