Additional Name(s): Memet Tursun, مەمەتتۇرسۇن ئىسلام

Gender: Male

Current Location: Kashgar

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 6 Years' Imprisonment

Current Status: Unknown

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Attending a Religious Gathering or Meeting Ethnoreligious Identity Giving, Sharing, & Listening to a Religious Speech

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Memettursun Islam

Extra Bio Info:

Memettursun Islam was imprisoned for his religious activity. 

In 2017, authorities detained Islam. Islam's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR in 2017.

On an unspecified date, Islam was sentenced to six years in prison reportedly in relation to his attendance of a sermon at a local mosque in 2013. 

Islam's sentence should have ended.

Several of Islam's family members, including his brothers-in-law and mother-in-law, have been subjected to detention.

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