Mihrigul Tursun

Mihrigul Tursun (; born 28 December 1989) is a reported former Uyghur detainee from Xinjiang, China.

After immigrating to the United States in 2018, Tursun claimed that she was taken into the custody of Chinese authorities several times, including being imprisoned at one of a network of Xinjiang internment camps for Uyghurs, subject to torture, and that one of her sons died while she was in the custody of Chinese authorities in 2015. Her story was widely reported in international media.

In 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China denied Tursun's allegations and gave their own account of events.

In China Mihrigul Tursun was born in China on 28 December 1989. Her family lives in the Qiemo County, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang. In May 2015 after returning from Egypt, where she was studying, and where she had married and had triplets,

On 28 November 2018, Mihrigul Tursun, speaking through a translator, testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China about her experience over a series of three internments. She said: "There were around 60 people kept in a cell so at nights, 10 to 15 women would stand up while the rest of us would sleep on sideways so we could fit, and then we would rotate every 2 hours. There were people who had not taken a shower over a year."

In December 2018, Tursun received a Citizen Power Award.

Tursun in an interview stated that she has not seen her husband since 2015, and she has learned that upon his return to China in 2016 he was arrested and sentenced to 16 years of imprisonment (of which his family was not informed and about which she learned only in 2018).

In 2019 What Has Happened to Me – A Testimony of a Uyghur Woman, a Japanese comic book recounting the story told by Mihrigul Tursun, illustrated by artist Tomomi Shimizu, has become a viral hit on the Internet.

According to the Government of China Responding to a CNN report, in 2019 China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying denied Tursun's allegations and gave their own account of the events.

According to Hua, Tursun was taken into custody by Qiemo County police for 20 days from 21 April – 20 May 2017 on suspicion of inciting ethnic hatred and discrimination but she was never jailed or put in a "vocational training" center (the government's term for the internment camps). Hua said that apart from those 20 days, she was totally free during her stay in China and traveled abroad extensively.

Hua also said that while detained, she was diagnosed with an unspecified infectious disease, rejected Tursun's claim that one of her sons died in Ürümqi's Children's Hospital, and said that her husband, an Egyptian, left the country with her and her children, returning to Egypt in April 2018.