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 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.