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 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.
Photo attributed to Xinjiang Victims Database
"Buzeynep Abdureshit" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
"Buzeynep Abdureshit" Xinjiang Victims Database