Additional Name(s): Mu'ertiza Maimaiti, مۇرتىزا مەمەت
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Sentence: 16 Years' Imprisonment
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Reason for Persecution: Distributing Religious Materials Ethnoreligious Identity Online Activity
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Murtiza Memet is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity.
On an unspecified date believed to have been in 2018, authorities detained Memet for reportedly sending “illegal” content over WeChat. He was reportedly sent to a internment camp in Uchturpan. Abdurahman's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
On an unspecified date, Memet was reportedly sentenced to 16 years in prison on unspecified charges.
Photo attributed to Xinjiang Victims Database
"Murtiza Memet" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
"Murtiza Memet" Xinjiang Victims Database