Gender: Female

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 10 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: September//2016

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Travel Abroad

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Turnisa Metomur

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Turnisa Metomur is imprisoned for her ethnoreligious identity. 

In September 2016, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Metomur after returning to China from Turkey. His detention came amid a government campaign in XUAR of arbitrary mass internment of Uyghurs and others for reasons including ethnic identity and travel abroad, particularly to Muslim-majority countries such as Turkey.

On an unspecified date, Metomur was reportedly sentenced to 10 years in prison on unspecified charges.

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