Additional Name(s): Hesenjan Qari, 艾山江·卡日

Gender: Male

Current Location: Tumshuq Prison

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 14 Years, 6 Months' Imprisonment

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity

Nature of Charges: Extremism Terrorism

Aishanjiang Kari

Extra Bio Info:

Aishanjiang Kari is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity.

In 2017, authorities detained Kari, a textile trader, amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

In 2019, it was discovered that Kari had been sentenced to 14 years and six months in prison for “participating in terrorist organizations” and “using extremism to undermine law enforcement."

Kari is married with six children.

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