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(4.5) | None | "Born in 1966 in Ghulja in the Xinjiang region, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was an executive in the Chinese oil industry before leaving for France in 2006 with her husband and children, who obtained the status of political refugees. In 2017 she was summoned in China for an administrative issue. Once there, she was arrested and spent more than two years in a re-education camp. Thanks to the efforts of her family and the French foreign ministry she was freed and was able to return to France where she currently resides"--… (more) |
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Through vocational training* most trainees have been able to reflect on their mistakes and see clearly the essence and harm of terrorism and religious extremism. They have notably enhance national consciousness, civil awareness, awareness of the rule of law, and the sense of the community of the Chinese nation. They also have been better able to tell right from wrong and resist the infiltration of extremist thought. . . . They are confident about the future.
Shohrat Zakir, Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and the Communist deputy party chief of Xinjiang, to state media on October 16, 2018
*Referring to the Chinese "reeducation" camps in Xinjiang  Not any force can stop Xinjiang from moving towards stability, development, and prosperity.
Shohrat Zakir during a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on December 9, 2019 | |
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To all those who didn't make it out. To Fanny, Gaétane, and Lucile - free women. | |
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Gulbahar survived internment. (Preface by Rozenn Margot) August 28, 2016
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That night, in the stifling heat of late August, a splendid party was underway. | |
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Rather than making me appreciate my position, the fates of my friends only saddened me all the more, as their possible futures -whether in a prison, a camp, or in Xinjiang - seemed equally dark. (Chapter 17: pp. 159-180 (Seven Stories Press, 2021)) | |
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Detailed and organized account of Gulbahar's experiences and unjust/inhumane treatment, as well as what researchers have been able to dig up about the prison camps and farcical "justice system" that are increasingly being used to this day. She doesn't directly mention any rape, aside from the women taking turns keeping watch at night for unwanted visitors, but she does describe their being systematically humiliated and abused during a forcible cavity search. She also records her experiences with forced sterilization shots that the officials claim to be "vaccinations" (we don't know what was in the shots, but the women prisoners who received it stopped having menses shortly afterwards).
See also: Made in China by Amelia Pang for a Falun Gong prisoner's story about his experiences (more hard labor, more graphic torture). (