Additional Name(s): Yiminjan Sedul, ئىمىنجان سەيدىن, 依明江·賽都力

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Health Concerns: High blood pressure

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 15 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: May//2017

Date of Sentencing: February//2019

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Scholarship

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Iminjan Seydin

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Iminjan Seydin is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity and religious scholarship.

In May 2017, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Seydina, retired history professor and founder of the Imin Book Publishing Co., and sent him to an internment camp.

In February 2019, the Tianshan District People's Court in Urumqi municipality, XUAR, reportedly sentenced Seydin to 15 years in prison for “inciting extremism” reportedly in relation to his publishing of a book about Arabic grammar.

In May 2020, the China Daily published a "proof-of-life" video of Seydin, possibly indicating his release, but that has not been confirmed.

Seydin suffers from high blood pressure.

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