Additional Name(s): Erbolat Qusman, 叶尔保拉提·胡斯曼

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Kazakh

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: Yes

Reports of Medical Neglect: Yes

Date of Detainment: October/27/2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: House Arrest

Reason for Persecution: Religious Activity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Erbolat Kusmanuly

Extra Bio Info:

Erbolat Kusmanuly is under house arrest in relation to his ethnoreligious identity.

On October 27, 2017, local authorities in Altay prefecture detained Kusmanuly, a restaurateur. Kusmanuly's wife proposed several reasons why she thinks he was arrested, including not drinking or smoking, being in contact with a religious group, and asking for his passport to be returned.

On December 29, 2018, Kusmanuly was released from detention and placed under house arrest.

Kusmanuly was reportedly denied adequate medical care for his pain in his kidneys that developed in March 2019.

There also allegations that Kusmanuly was tortured during a 2020 police interrogation.

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