Additional Name(s): ئېرشات 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
Ershat 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.
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"Ershat Abdureshit" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
"Ershat Abdureshit" Xinjiang Victims Database