Additional Name(s): ئېرپان ئابدۇرېشىت

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 Possession of Religious Materials Religious Appearance

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Erpan Abdureshit

Extra Bio Info:

Erpan Abdureshit is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.

In 2017, authorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Abdureshit, his brother, and mother and sent them to a "political reeducation" center amid mass detentions of ethnic minorities in XUAR.  One of Abdureshit's relatives said that he believed some of his relatives were were detained either for growing beards or having religious materials at their homes or religious content on their phones.

Abdureshit's father was also detained in May 2017.

Related Cases: Ershat Abdureshit, Hornisaxan Osman, Abdureshit Turdi

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