Additional Name(s): ئايتۆرەم تۇردى
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: November//2017
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Possession of Religious Materials Religious Appearance
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Aytorem Turdi is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In November 2017, public security officials in Aksu city, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Turdi and sent her to a "political reeducation" center. Several members of Turdi's family were also detained. One of Turdi's brothers reportedly said that some of his family members had been detained for growing beards or having religious materials at their homes or religious content on their phones. Turdi and her family's detentions came amid mass detentions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other ethnic minority residents of the XUAR.