https://shahit.biz/eng/viewentry.php?entryno=13998
testifying party
Testimony 1: Dui Hua, a San Francisco-based nonprofit humanitarian organization that seeks clemency and better treatment for at-risk detainees in China.
Testimony 2: Official court document, as used in court proceedings in the People’s Republic of China.
about the victim
Ma Sheng (马胜) is a Hui Muslim man and a member of the Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) (lit. “society for spreading faith”) movement.
Testimony 2: he is from Ghulja County.
current location
chronology of detention(s)
In October 2010, the Ghulja County People’s Court sentenced Ma Sheng and six other TJ participants to three to four years of imprisonment for being part of a “cult” [which is presumably a reference to the Chinese legal concept of “Xie Jiao”].
The Dui Hua article does not specify the length of Ma Sheng’s sentence in particular.
suspected and/or official reason(s) for detention
Ma Sheng was accused of being part of a “cult” and “conducting illegal religious classes.” He allegedly taught several banned books, including “Islamic Six Virtues” and “Riyad as-Salihin Hadiths”, which were both easily downloadable free-of-charge from various online file-sharing services.
last reported status
Testimony 1: The victim was sentenced in October 2010 to three to four years of imprisonment and has presumably been released, but his current status and whereabouts are unknown.
Testimony 2: in the 2018 court verdict for Jin Dehuai, Ma Sheng appears as a witness to testify that Jin Dehuai had organized for him and others to travel to Lanzhou and Xining for Jamaat gatherings. [That Ma Sheng appeared as a witness establishes that he was in Xinjiang during the time of the mass incarcerations, and would have very likely been detained himself, though this is unconfirmed.]
how testifier(s) learned of victim’s situation
This information was uncovered by Dui Hua during their research into Chinese court judgements.
additional information
Dui Hua article: https://www.duihuahrjournal.org/2021/01/tablighi-jamaat-and-hui-muslims.html
Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) (lit. “society for spreading faith”) was designated by the Chinese government as an “overseas religious infiltration organisation […] unanimously boycotted by China’s traditional Islamic groups.” According to this article, TJ is a “transnational movement closely tied to the Deobandi interpretation of the Sunni Islamic teachings” and was founded in India in 1926. TJ reportedly rejects violence as a means for evangelism and is primarily concerned with encouraging other Muslims to adopt a more orthodox lifestyle akin to the lifestyles of Mohammad and the first Muslim adherents.