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

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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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