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 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.
Photo attributed to Xinjiang Victims Database
"Erbolat Qusman" Xinjiang Victims Database