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

Extra Bio Info:

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.

Sources:
  • "Yusup Tohti" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)