Additional Name(s): Awzer, ئابۇزەر

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 Travel Abroad

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Abuzer Abdughappar

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Abuzer Abdughappar is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.

In 2017, authorities detained Abdughappar after returning to China from studying in Turkey. Abdughappar's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

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