Additional Name(s): Qelbinur Toxti, قەلبىنۇر توختى

Gender: Female

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Date of Detainment: August//2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Activity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Qelbinur Tohti

Extra Bio Info:

Qelbinur Tohti is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity. 

In August 2017, public security officials in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Tohti, a clothing industry entrepreneur, reportedly in relation to her performance of religious rites at funerals and refusal to comply with official demands to change her three children’s names. Her arrest came amid mass detentions of ethnic minorities in XUAR.

Tohti's family, including her husband and two sisters, have also been subjected to detention. 

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