Additional Name(s): Muhemmet'eli Atawulla, Memeteli Atawulla, مۇھەممەتئېلى ئاتاۋۇللا

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Date of Detainment: August//2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Memet'eli Atawulla

Extra Bio Info:

Memet'eli Atawulla is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.

In August 2017, authorities detained Atawulla and held him at a "political reeducation" center months after his brother, Rozimemet Atawulla, was detained for "religious extremism" and sent to the same center. Their detentions were reportedly part of a wave of detentions of Uyghurs in Hotan County in 2017 and 2018.  

Atawulla was reportedly hospitalized at some point due to detention conditions. 

Other members of Atawulla's family, including his mother, and brother-in-law, have also been subjected to detention.

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