Additional Name(s): Mehmutjan Memet, Maihemuti Maimaiti, مەھمۇت مەمەت

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 16 Years' Imprisonment

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Distributing Religious Materials Ethnoreligious Identity Online Activity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Mehmut Memet

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Mehmut Memet is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.

In 2017, authorities in Uchturpan (Wushi) county, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Memet for reportedly sending “illegal” content over WeChat. He was reportedly sent to a internment camp in Uchturpan. Memet's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR in 2017 and 2018.

On an unspecified date, Memet was reportedly sentenced to 16 years in prison on unspecified charges.

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