Additional Name(s): ئەمەرجان

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: May//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

Emerjan

Extra Bio Info:

Emerjan is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.

In May 2017, authorities detained Emerjan and several of family members and sent them to a "political reeducation" center. Their detentions are reportedly believed to have been in relation to either growing beards or having religious materials at their homes or religious content on their phones and came amid mass detentions of ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Emerjan is married.

Sources:
  • "Emerjan" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)