Additional Name(s): Ayshihan Hoshur, بېيشىخان ھوشۇر

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: March//2018

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Attending a Religious Gathering or Meeting Ethnoreligious Identity Praying

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Beyshihan Hoshur

Extra Bio Info:

Beyshihan Hoshur is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.

In March 2018, authorities detained Hoshur and several other elderly women in relation to their praying at a funeral in 2013. Hoshur's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

Hoshur's son was also detained.

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