Additional Name(s): تۇرسۇن زايىت

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Giving, Sharing, & Listening to a Religious Speech

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Tursun Zayit

Extra Bio Info:

Tursun Zayit is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.

In 2017, Zayit was detained in Tomosteng town, Yarkand (Shache) County, Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), alongside dozens of others Uyghurs, reportedly in relation to their giving or listening to religious sermons unauthorized by authorities. Zayit's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR in 2017.

Zayit's brothers were also detained.

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