Perhat Tursun

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Tursun is a renowned Uyghur writer of poetry, prose, and novels. He was denounced as anti-Islamic in the late 1990s for his work’s themes of suicide, sexuality, and mental illness, for which he has received death threats. He has been in detention since January 2018.