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 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.