Additional Name(s): 玉素普·麦麦提

Gender: Male

Current Location: No. 2 Vocational Skills Training Center

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Date of Detainment: October/9/2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

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

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Yusup Memet

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Yusup Memet is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.

On October 9, 2017, authorities reportedly detained Memet for attending an illegal religious gathering and listening to religious teachings. Memet was sent to No. 2 Vocational Skills Training Center. Memet's detention came amid mass detentions of largely Muslim ethnic minorities in XUAR.

Memet is married with two children.

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