Additional Name(s): Abudurezake Xiamuxiding, Abdurazaq Shamseden, 阿布杜热扎克•夏木西丁

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: Yes

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: Originally Life Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: April/18/1998

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity

Nature of Charges: Arms Trafficking & Illicit Use of Weapons Separatism

Abdurazzak Shamseden

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Abdurazzak Shamseden is imprisoned in relation to his ethnoreligious identity. 

On April 18, 1998, authorities detained Shamseden after his nephew, Hammat Muhemmet, and other Uyghur youths clashed with police deployed from mainland China to patrol Ghulja city. Six of those youths, including Muhemmet, were killed by police.

In 1999/2000, Shamseden was reportedly sentenced to life in prison. He was reportedly tortured into confessing and denied due process. Shamseden is believed to have been charged with “splittism” and “illegally carrying and keeping arms, ammunition and explosives."

In August 2016, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region High People's Court reduced Shamseden's sentence He is expected to be released in 2036

Shamseden was last know to be serving his sentence at Urumqi No.1 Prison, but his exact whereabouts can no longer be accounted for. 

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