Additional Name(s): Shiri Memtili, شىرئەلى مەمەتئېلى

Gender: Male

Current Location: Wusu Prison

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 16 Years, 8 Months' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: November//2018

Date of Sentencing: May//2019

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Figure & Religious Leadership Role Religious Instruction & Teaching

Nature of Charges: Illegal Assembly Separatism

Shireli Memeteli

Extra Bio Info:

Shireli Memeteli is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity.

In November 2018, authorities detained Memeteli, a taxi driver, reportedly for transporting a religious figure and receiving an illegal religious education.

In May 2019, a Xinjiang court sentenced him to 16 years and eight months in prison for "inciting separatism" (Art. 103 CCL) and "gathering a crowd to disturb social order" (Art. 291 CCL).

Memeteli is believed to be serving his sentence in Wusu Prison.

Memeteli has two children.

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