Additional Name(s): Asiya Muhemmet Salih, Asiye Mehmet, Asiye Muhemmedsalih, ئاسىيە مۇھەممەت سالىھ
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: December//2017
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Asiye Muhemmet Salih is detained for her ethnoreligious identity.
In December 2017, authorities in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Salih, a Chinese-language instructor at Urumqi’s Xinjiang University. Salih's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR.
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Photo attributed to Xinjiang Victims Database
"Asiye Muhemmet Salih" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
"Asiye Muhemmedsalih" Xinjiang Victims Database