Uyghur taxi driver and his mother jailed in China for transporting imam
April 21, 2020 at 1:24 pm | Published in: Asia & Americas, China, Middle East, News
April 21, 2020 at 1:24 pm
The authorities in Ghulja in China’s Xinjiang province, sentenced a local Uyghur taxi driver to at least 16 years in prison last year for transporting an “illegal†religious person, Radio Free Asia (RFA) has revealed. His mother was also jailed, for 10 years.
Shireli Memtili, a 28-year-old father of two, was sentenced to “200 months†in jail in May 2019 for driving what was likely to have been a non-state-sanctioned imam, and receiving illegal religious education from him, members of his family told RFA’s Uyghur service in a special interview.
His family members were informed about his imprisonment when they contacted officials at their local community administrative centre. There was apparently no public trial for the taxi driver.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200421-uyghur-taxi-driver-and-his-mother-jailed-in-china-for-transporting-imam/
