Additional Name(s): كامىلە ۋاھىت, 卡米莱·瓦依提

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: December/12/2022

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Human Rights Work for Religious Communities

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Kamile Wayit

Extra Bio Info:

Kamile Wayit is detained in relation to her ethnoreligious identity and her brother's human rights work.

On December 12, 2022, authorities in Atush (Atushi) city, Kizilsu (Kezilesu) Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Wayit, a Uyghur Muslim, after she returned home for winter break. According to her brother, she was possibly targeted for her social media activity about protests related to COVID-19 restrictions or in retaliation for his Uyghur human rights activism abroad.

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