Detainees are photographed with their jackets draped over their shoulders. This has a precise humiliating meaning in both Uyghur and Chinese culture.
Re-Education Camps
Peyzulla Utuq and Sayragul Sauytbay: Two Escaped Xinjiang, One Died and One Survived
While we admire and promote Sayragul’s testimony, we should also remember Peyzulla, who was ruthlessly killed by the Chinese, as Bitter Winter was the first to reveal.
UK Parliament: The Battle Continues on “Genocide” Health Purchases from Xinjiang
MPs have pledged to continue fighting, with a new round of political ping pong launched by the UK House of Commons last week.
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.
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.
Chinese Humiliation: Rape and Torture in Xinjiang’s “Vocational Schools”
A Bitter Winter exclusive: ethnic Kazakh survivor Ulnur Bozhykhan’s story as told to her husband, a Kazakh journalist.
Xinjiang’s Killing Fields: A Uyghur Scholar Who Survived Speaks
It is not about “re-education” only. Prisoners in the camps are routinely murdered.
Kazakh Voices from Camps and Jails in Xinjiang. 6. Yerulan Nurjamal
Sentenced to ten years for praying and sharing a sermon: our exclusive series of testimonies from ethnic Kazakhs persecuted in China concludes.
Kazakh Voices from Camps and Jails in Xinjiang. 5. Kairat and Zharkyn Audygan
Heavy jail penalties for trumped-up charges: our exclusive series of testimonies from ethnic Kazakhs persecuted in China continues.
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.