Memet Talip

Additional Name(s): مەمەت تالىپ

Gender: Male

Current Location: Kashgar

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 Giving, Sharing, & Listening to a Religious Speech

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Memet Talip

Extra Bio Info:

Memet Talip is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.

In 2017, Talip was detained in Tomosteng town, Yarkand (Shache) County, Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), alongside dozens of others Uyghurs, reportedly in relation to their giving or listening to religious sermons unauthorized by authorities. Talip's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR in 2017.

Talip's sister was also detained.

Publicly Available Information:

"Memet Talip" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)