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 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.
Photo attributed to Xinjiang Victims Database
"Shireli Memeteli" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
"Shireli Memeteli" Xinjiang Victims Database