Ulnur Bozhykhan

About Ulnur Bozhykhan

Ulnur Bozhykhan was born on June 28, 1988, in the village of Kensu in the Kunes county of the Ili-Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang Autonomous Region (East Turkestan). In 2018, she was accused of having contacts with dissidents and was taken to a transformation through education camp, where she was tortured and raped. In 2019, after a campaign on her behalf by the independent Kazakh human rights organization Atajurt, she was allowed to move to Kazakhstan. She told her story, as told to her husband, author Turarbek Kusainov, in February 2022 in Bitter Winter.

03/31/2022 Ulnur Bozhykhan

I Exposed Torture and Rape in the Xinjiang Camps: The CCP Wants Me Back

To stop me from telling the truth about its crimes, the Party is trying to manipulate my ex-husband and my sister to get me back to China.

03/17/2022 Ulnur Bozhykhan

I Told My Story in Bitter Winter, the CCP Is Taking Revenge on My Relatives

I reported how I was tortured and raped in the Xinjiang camps. After my text was published, my parents and relatives who are still in China started being persecuted.