Additional Name(s): ھەبىبۇللا توختى, 海尔布尔.土赫提

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 10 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: March//2017

Date of Sentencing: May//2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Scholarship Travel Abroad

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Hebibulla Tohti

Extra Bio Info:

Hebibulla Tohti is imprisoned for his religious scholarship and ethnoreligious identity.

In March 2017, security personnel in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Tohit, a well-known religious scholar. Tohit's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR in 2017 and 2018.

In May 2017, a XUAR court sentenced Tohti to 10 years in prison on unspecified charges related to "illegal religious activity."

Tohti had been previously detained in relation to his travel abroad, where he allegedly taught Uyghur students in Egypt about religion and attended a religious conference in Saudi Arabia.

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