Additional Name(s): تۇرسۇن ھوشۇر

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: July//2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Fasting Praying Religious Activity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Tursun Hoshur

Extra Bio Info:

Tursun Hoshur is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity. 

In July 2017, public security authorities in Shaptul township, Peyziwat (Jiashi) county, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Hoshur, a retired teacher and Communist Party member. Local police said his arrest was in relation to his religious practice, including attending weekly prayer services and regularly fasting during Ramadan. Hoshur's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in 2017.

Hoshur's son was also detained. 

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