Additional Name(s): Mehmet Abdulla Enwer, مەھمەت ئابدۇللا ئەنۋەر
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Sentence: 5 Years, 6 Months' Imprisonment
Date of Sentencing: June//2017
Current Status: Unknown
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Giving, Sharing, & Listening to a Religious Speech Religious Activity
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Mehmet Abdulla Enver was imprisoned for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
On an unspecified date, authorities detained Enver reportedly for "listening to a religious sermon."
In June 2017, Enver was sentenced to five years and six months in prison on unspecified charges. Enver's sentence came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
Enver's sentence should have ended.
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"Mehmet Abdulla Enver" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)