Additional Name(s): 麦合木提·依力

Gender: Male

Current Location: Beshkent Party School, Yarkand, Kashgar

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Date of Detainment: May/6/2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Instruction & Teaching

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Mehmut Eli

Extra Bio Info:

Mehmut Eli is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.

On May 6, 2017, authorities reportedly detained Eli for illegally studying scripture. Eli was sent to Beshkent Party School, a reeducation camp, in Yarkand, Kashgar. Eli's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR.

Eli has one child.

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