testifying party

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victim's relation to testifier

information publicly available

about the victim

name: Buraziye Memettohti (布威热则耶·麦麦提托合提)
gender: female
ethnicity: Uyghur

After she graduated from the Hotan “training centre” (毕业后) she chose to work in a textile factory in Hotan city, Shorbagh Town, Gazong village (和田市肖尔巴格乡尕宗村). Now she is teaching other women in the textile factory how to sew clothes.
She had already passed the university entrance exam (gaokao) and had been admitted to a university in inner China. Her father who had been influenced by “religious extremist thoughts”, did not let her go as he considered it useless for women to study. Under his influence, she started wearing a niqab and also started spreading “religious extremist thoughts”. Her husband entered the “training centre” with her and also learned skills.

current location

textile factory in Hotan city, Shorbagh Town, Gazong village (和田市肖尔巴格乡尕宗村)

chronology of detention(s)

unknown

suspected and/or official reason(s) for detention

probably "religious extremism"

last reported status

released from "re-education" camp, now working in a factory

how testifier(s) learned of victim's situation

http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2018-11/05/c_1123667476.htm (published 5 NOV 2018)
http://www.cnrmz.cn/mzyw/201811/t20181107_1288771.html

additional information

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entry created on: 2019-02-23

entry last modified on: 2019-11-21

last update from testifier(s): 2019-02-23