Qurbanjan Abdusemet

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 10 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Sentencing: April//2009

Current Status: Unknown

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Activity Religious Business Activity

Nature of Charges: Separatism

Qurbanjan Abdusemet

Extra Bio Info:

Qurbanjan Abdusemet was imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity and religiously oriented business activity. 

In 2009, authorities detained Abdusemet and his brother reportedly for engaging in religious activities and selling state-sanctioned religious publications from other provinces. 

In April 2009, a court in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region sentenced Abdusemet to ten years in prison for “splitting the state” (Art. 103 CCL).

Abdusemet's sentence should have ended in May 2019.

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