Additional Name(s): Bizainafu Abudourexiti, Buzainafu Abudourexiti, بۈزەينەپ ئابدۇرەشىت, 布再娜甫·阿布都热西提

Gender: Female

Current Location: Xinjiang Women's Prison

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 7 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: March/29/2017

Date of Sentencing: June/5/2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Instruction & Teaching Travel Abroad

Nature of Charges: Illegal Assembly

Buzeynep Abdureshit

Extra Bio Info:

Buzeynep Abdureshit is imprisoned for her study abroad and ethnoreligious identity.

On March 29, 2017, public security officials in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained possibly in relation to her studying Islam in Egypt. Her detention came amid a government campaign in XUAR of arbitrary mass internment of Uyghurs and others for reasons including ethnic identity and travel abroad, particularly to Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt.

On June 5, 2017, Abdureshit was sentenced to seven years in prison reportedly for "gathering a crowd to disturb social order."

Abdureshit is married and was reportedly pregnant when initially detained.

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