Emer Mehmut

Additional Name(s): 艾麦尔·麦合木提

Gender: Male

Current Location: Beshkent Party School, Yarkand, Kashgar

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Date of Detainment: October/21/2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Instruction & Teaching

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Emer Mehmut

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Emer Mehmut is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity. 

On October 21, 2017, authorities reportedly detained Mehmut for illegally studying scripture. Mehmut was sent to Beshkent Party School, a reeducation camp, in Yarkand, Kashgar. Mehmut's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

Mehmut has one child.

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