Additional Name(s): Memet Imin Tursun, مەمتىمىن تۇرسۇن

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

Memtimin Tursun

Extra Bio Info:

Memtimin Tursun is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.

In 2017, authorities detained Tursun amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in 2017.

Other members of Tursan's family was also detained.

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