{"id":1120,"date":"2019-10-20T23:05:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T14:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2019-10-20T23:07:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T14:07:15","slug":"china-accused-of-running-secret-rape-and-torture-camps-holding-one-million-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/2019\/10\/20\/china-accused-of-running-secret-rape-and-torture-camps-holding-one-million-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"China accused of running secret \u2018rape and torture\u2019 camps holding one million Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1192785\/China-news-Uyghur-political-prisoners-Xinjiang-Islam-religion-reeducation-torture?fbclid=IwAR3H4g_FGN9kQ-5DEzK7D0-r9Ygde6w3F7wHTg44-q54N0xY2d7BH0gzozU\">https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1192785\/China-news-Uyghur-political-prisoners-Xinjiang-Islam-religion-reeducation-torture?fbclid=IwAR3H4g_FGN9kQ-5DEzK7D0-r9Ygde6w3F7wHTg44-q54N0xY2d7BH0gzozU<\/a>                <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A woman from Xinjiang has spoken about her treatment in a re-education camp administered by the Chinese government.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>PlayUnmuteCurrent Time&nbsp;0:30\/Duration&nbsp;1:11Loaded: 0%Progress: 0%&nbsp;FacebookTwitterShareFullscreen&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xinjiang is home to millions of members of the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority.&nbsp;They are considered a Turkic ethnic group and their language predominantly Uyghur is part of the Turkic language family.&nbsp;Teacher Sayragul Sauytbay told Haaretz of her experience in one of the camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RELATED ARTICLES<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1192003\/putin-news-russia-plotting-arctic-invasion-trump-china-challenge-world-war-3-spt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Putin &#8216;eyes land grab in key Arctic region&#8217; amid grapple with Trump<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1192304\/South-China-Sea-news-latest-World-War-3-solomon-islands-beijing-us-washington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South China Sea: Beijing\u2019s secret Solomon Islands deal<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>She explained: \u201cAt the end of 2016, the police began arresting people at night, secretly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a socially and politically uncertain period. Cameras appeared in every public space; the security forces stepped up their presence. At one stage, DNA samples were taken from all members of minorities in the region and our telephone SIM cards were taken from us.\u201d<ins><\/ins>\u201cOne day, we were invited to a meeting of senior civil servants. There were perhaps 180 people there, employees in hospitals and schools. Police officers, reading from a document, announced that reeducation centres for the population were going to open soon, in order to stabilise the situation in the region.\u201dPROMOTED STORY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Sauytbay has successfully claimed asylum in Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/China-news-1192785.jpg?r=1571500882895\" alt=\"china news\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbed war in front of a Xinjiang housing compound&nbsp;(Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/Uyghur-2118188.jpg?r=1571500882986\" alt=\"uyghur\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two Uyghur women walk past armed police&nbsp;(Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beijing launched a tough policy in the region following suicide attacks attributed to separatists between 2014 and 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She explained: \u201cIn January 2017, they started to take people who had relatives abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 43-year-old is of Kazakh descent and planned to move to the nation, but she had her passport confiscated, though her husband and two daughters reached Kazakhstan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She explained: \u201cThey came to my house at night, put a black sack on my head and brought me to a place that looked like a jail. I was interrogated by police officers, who wanted to know where my husband and children were, and why they had gone to Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1191559\/China-news-US-Hong-Kong-law-Beijing-protest-latest-Donald-Trump-Xi-Jinping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China fury: Beijing lashes out at US over Hong Kong &#8216;interference<\/a><\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/Urumqi-2118189.jpg?r=1571500883091\" alt=\"URUMQI\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Protestors clash with security forces in Urumqi, the Xinjiang capital&nbsp;(Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RELATED ARTICLES<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/othersport\/1190811\/LeBron-James-Daryl-Morey-NBA-China-Hong-Kong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LeBron James criticises &#8216;not educated&#8217; Daryl Morey over NBA vs China<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1191294\/South-china-sea-latest-update-China-vietnam-world-war-3-Xi-jinping-Nguyen-phu-trong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South China Sea: Vietnam vows to &#8216;fight&#8217; for its territory agains Xi<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the interrogation I was ordered to tell my husband to come home, and I was forbidden to talk about the interrogation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn November 2017, I was ordered to report to an address in the city\u2019s suburbs, to leave a message at a phone number I had been given and to wait for the police.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Sauytbay claims she was then bundled into a cab and taken to a re-education camp where was ordered to teach Chinese to follow detainees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singing of propaganda songs and reciting slogans such as \u201cI love&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/express.co.uk\/latest\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China<\/a>\u201d, \u201cThank you to the Communist Party\u201d, \u201cI am Chinese\u201d and \u201cI love Xi Jingping\u201d are mandatory according to Ms Sauytbay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DON&#8217;T MISS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/othersport\/1190882\/LeBron-James-Daryl-Morey-NBA-China-Hong-Kong-protests-Lakers-Nets-comment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The irony and hypocrisy of those slamming LeBron&#8217;s Morey comments<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1190786\/south-china-sea-latest-news-abominable-film-cinemas-vietnam-donald-trump-xi-jinping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South China Sea crisis: Vietnam pulls Abominable film<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1190356\/hong-kong-protest-world-war-3-news-denise-ho-china-xi-jinping-san-uk-ling-police-pla-army\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hong Kong\u2019s Last Stand: China&#8217;s &#8216;White terror&#8217; tactics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/CHILDREN-2118190.jpg?r=1571500883202\" alt=\"CHILDREN\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A child in Urumqi looks at security personnel&nbsp;(Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/Prayers-2118191.jpg?r=1571500883265\" alt=\"PARYERS\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Uyghur men pray for dead ancestors&nbsp;(Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Punishments were given to those who failed to comply: \u201cThey would punish inmates for everything. Anyone who didn\u2019t follow the rules was punished. Those who didn\u2019t learn Chinese properly or who didn\u2019t sing the songs were also punished.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Sauytbay alleged she was beaten and deprived of food for two days after she was hugged by a woman who asked her for help, thought she says she \u201cdid nor reciprocate the embrace\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She even alleged seeing children as young as 13 and people as old as 84 as well as detainees given medicine which one nurse privately admitted was dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Sauytbay alleges: \u201cOn an everyday basis the policemen took the pretty girls with them, and they didn\u2019t come back to the rooms all night. The police had unlimited power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/Whatsapp-2118192.jpg?r=1571500883358\" alt=\"whatsapp\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatsapp is banned in China, making outside communication difficult&nbsp;(Image: EXPRESS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey could take whoever they wanted. There were also cases of gang rape. In one of the classes I taught, one of those victims entered half an hour after the start of the lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe police ordered her to sit down, but she just couldn\u2019t do it, so they took her to the black room for punishment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term \u2018black room\u2019 was coined as it was against the rules to explicitly discuss it, Ms Sauytbay claims she saw people covered in blood and with fingernails removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese Embassy in Sweden wrote to Haaretz saying the testimony was \u201ctotal lies and malicious smear attacks against China\u201d, they claimed Ms Sauytbay \u201cnever worked in any vocational education and training centre in Xinjiang, and has never been detained before leaving China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/Brussels-2118193.jpg?r=1571500883442\" alt=\"brussels\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A protest in Brussels against Chinese policy&nbsp;(Image: GETTY)\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1192785\/China-news-Uyghur-political-prisoners-Xinjiang-Islam-religion-reeducation-torture?fbclid=IwAR3H4g_FGN9kQ-5DEzK7D0-r9Ygde6w3F7wHTg44-q54N0xY2d7BH0gzozU A woman from Xinjiang has spoken about her treatment in a re-education camp administered by the Chinese government. 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