Additional Name(s): ھەمدۇللا ئابدۇراھمان, 海木都拉·阿布都热合曼

Gender: Male

Current Location: Xinjiang

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Date of Detainment: January//2019

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Hemdulla Abdurahman

Extra Bio Info:

Hemdulla Abdurahman is detained for his ethnoreligious identity. 

In January 2019, authorities detained Abdurahman, a retired linguist who previously worked at the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) Ethnic Language Work Committee in Urumqi municipality, XUAR. Relatives living abroad lost contact with Abdurahman shortly after he told them that his brother had been detained for performing prayers.

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