Heavy jail penalties for trumped-up charges: our exclusive series of testimonies from ethnic Kazakhs persecuted in China continues.
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Kazakh Voices from Camps and Jails in Xinjiang. 4. Gulguina Toktagazy
Some didn’t go the camps but lived in constant fear: our exclusive series of testimonies from ethnic Kazakhs persecuted in China continues.
Kazakh Voices from Camps and Jails in Xinjiang. 3. Bakytgul Ramazan
“I was tortured for 24 hours on a tiger chair”: our exclusive series of testimonies from ethnic Kazakhs persecuted in China continues.
Kazakh Voices from Camps and Jails in Xinjiang. 2. Abikesh Samenuly
“My father suspiciously died one day after he was told he could leave China”: our exclusive series of testimonies of ethnic Kazakhs persecuted in China continues.
Kazakh Voices from Camps and Jails in Xinjiang. 1. Anykbek Turdazhan
“Three times a week, prison guards sprinkled pepper gas on us”: Bitter Winter starts an exclusive series of testimonies from ethnic Kazakhs persecuted in China.
Kazakhstan Recognizes Xinjiang Refugees, China Retaliates
Kaster Musakhan and Murager Alimuly will be protected until October 2022. China answers with commercial retaliations.
Ethnic Kazakh Imam Sentenced to 23 Years for “Reciting the Quran Inappropriately”
Social media mobilize for Raguzbay Yizbashar. Meanwhile, human rights defender Serikzhan Bilash’ Facebook accounts have been closed.
Rape, Forced Prostitution of Uyghur and Kazakh Women
Survivors believe this is a deliberate strategy to humiliate both female and male Muslims in Xinjiang.
Eid al-Adha in Xinjiang: Propaganda vs Reality
Beijing used the feast to broadcast fake videos of Uyghurs and ethnic Kazakhs celebrating in a strange way. Some concessions were made this year, but within a climate of terror.
Kazakhstan: Activist Baibolat Kunbolat’s Wife Arrested, Beaten
After she took pictures of her husband’s arrest, which Bitter Winter published, Bakyt Zharykbassova was also detained and mistreated by the police.