Additional Name(s): Minewer Rehim, مۇنەۋۋەر رېھىم
Gender: Female
Current Location: Xinjiang
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Sentence: 11 Years' Imprisonment
Date of Detainment: April//2017
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Reason for Persecution: Attending a Religious Gathering or Meeting Ethnoreligious Identity
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Munewwer Rehim is imprisoned for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In April 2017, authorities in Kashgar city, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Rehim and her brother, Qadir Rehim, in relation to the funerals they held for their parents. The funerals were in accordance to Islamic customs and had too many people in attendance according to authorities. Rehim's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR in 2017 and 2018.
On an unspecified date, Rehim was reportedly sentenced to 11 years in prison on unspecified charges.
Related Cases: Qadir Rehim
Photo attributed to Xinjiang Victims Database
"Munewwer Rehim" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
"Minewer Rehim" Xinjiang Victims Database