Additional Name(s): Shirin'ay Tohti, شىرىنئاي توختى
Gender: Female
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Shirinay Tohti is detained for her ethnoreligious activity.
In 2017, public security officials in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Tohti, a clothing industry entrepreneur, reportedly for telling family outside of China of the arrest of her sister, Qelbinur Tohti, who was detained in relation to her performance of religious rites at funerals and refusal to comply with official demands to change her three children’s names. Tohti's arrest came amid mass detentions of ethnic minorities in XUAR.
Other members of Tohti's family, including her brother-in-law and another sister have also been subjected to detention.