Additional Name(s): Mehsud Abley, مەسئۇد ئابلەي

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Date of Detainment: December//2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Mesud Abley

Extra Bio Info:

Mesud Abley is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.

In December 2017, authorities in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Abley and his wife, Ayshemqiz Hajim, and sent them to Atush (Atushi) city, Kizilsu (Kezilesu) Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, XUAR, their registered place of residence. Abley's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR.

Abley's son had also been detained around the same time in Beijing.

Related Cases: Ayshemqiz Hajim, Nurmemet Hajim

Sources:
  • "Mesud Abley" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)