Additional Name(s): يۈسۈپ توختى
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
Yusup Tohti is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In 2017, authorities detained Tohti reportedly in relation to the detention of his wife, Patem Rozi, who was arrested for “illegal religious preaching” and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Tohti's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR in 2017.
Tohti had one child who reportedly died while he was in detention.