testifying party (submitted by third party)

Testimony 1: Memitmin Memet Hajim. He came to Norway in early 1999. He lives in Norway now. He came to Norway in early of 1999.

Testimony 2: Elem Mehmet, born in Ghulja in 1966, came to Norway in 1999 and is currently living there.

victim's relation to testifier

Testimony 1: his son

Testimony 2: his nephew (older brother's son)

about the victim

Rishat Memtimin is a businessman with a middle-school education.

He went to Norway with his grandmother to visit his father in 2015 and stayed for 3 months.

ID address: 14 Third Alley, Roshen Street, Ghulja City, Xinjiang (新疆伊宁市光明街3巷14号).

Chinese passport: E16601960.

current location

[Presumably in Ili.]

chronology of detention(s)

June 2017

suspected and/or official reason(s) for detention

According to the testifies, going to Norway to visit the testifier.

last reported status

According to the testifier, he was taken into camps in 2017. Since then his whereabouts in unknown.

how testifier(s) learned of victim's situation

Not Stated.

additional information

He came to visit his father in Norway in 2015. He was contacted by the local police through his relatives in Ghulja, threating him that his family and his uncle, Seydehmet Memtimin, would be arrested if he didn't come back. So his grandmother, Ruqiye Jumehun, and he went back.
After they went back, Memtimin Hajim kept contact with them. But in the end of 2016, he lost contact with them. Then in the end of August 2019, Memtinim Hajim learnt that his mother is at home and his brother, Seydehmet Memtimin, was released after a while he was detained. His son, Rishat Memtimin, was taken into camps in 2017 but since then his whereabouts is unknown.

RFA coverage: https://www.rfa.org/uyghur/xewerler/uyghurda-lager-09092019154620.html

relatives

supplementary materials

entry created on: 2019-11-04

entry last modified on: 2021-03-19

last update from testifier(s): 2019-09-09