Additional Name(s): مەمەت تۇرسۇن ھاجى

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

Sentence: 8 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: May//2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Pilgrimage Praying Religious Activity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Memet Tursun Haji

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Memet Tursun Haji is imprisoned for his religious belief, activity, and ethnoreligious identity.

In May 2017, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Haji, owner of Eziz Diyar Plaza at Kashgar's Sunday Market, and several Uyghur businessmen for allegedly displaying signs of "religious extremism." A local security official reportedly said that the men "had also undertaken 'unapproved, private hajj' pilgrimages and had been involved with imams who were not sanctioned by the state."

On an unspecified day in 2017, Haji was sentenced to eight years in prison on unknown charges.

Related Cases: Imin Hajim, Abdujelil Hajim, Gheni Haji

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