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 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.
Photo attributed to Xinjiang Victims Database
"Mehmut Memet" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
"Mehmutjan Memet" Xinjiang Victims Database