Mehet Omer

Additional Name(s): Mahat Omer, مەخەت ئۆمەر

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Health Concerns: Diabetes

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Date of Detainment: June//2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Pilgrimage

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Mehet Omer

Extra Bio Info:

Mehet Omer is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.

In May 2017, authorities arrested Omer and held him for an unspecified period of time reportedly in relation to him having made the Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in 2016 without official approval. He was later released.

In or around June 2017, public security officials in Kashgar city, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), took Omer back into custody and sent them to a "political reeducation" center.

Omer suffers from diabetes.

Sources:

"Mehet Omer" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)