Additional Name(s): پەرھات تۇرسۇن, 帕尔哈提·吐尔逊

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Perhat Tursun

Extra Bio Info:

Perhat Tursun is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.

In early 2018, Tursun, a writer and poet, disappeared. There are reports that he was detained by Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) authorities. Tursun's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR in 2017 and 2018.

There are unconfirmed reports that Tursan was sentenced to prison.

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