According to her cousin, who now lives in Kazakhstan, Moldir was travelling in Xinjiang on a bus to another town when she was detained on 18 February 2018. On that day the police came to her home looking for her. Her relatives later found out that she was taken away because of a picture on her phone that celebrates Friday (Jumah), the day Muslims hold congregational prayer, and she had been travelling back and forth to Kazakhstan to visit her relatives there. Moldir was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment and is currently in No.1 Women’s Prison in Ghulja (Yining), Ili Prefecture. She was earlier hospitalized due to her lung disease. Worried about her, Moldir’s relatives, who are Kazakh citizens, have written to the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan about her plight but received no response.