Book review: How Uyghur Muslims are oppressed in their own land

Gulbahar Haitiwaji has laid out in stark terms the reality of life in 're-education' camps in Xinjiang, China
Book review: How Uyghur Muslims are oppressed in their own land

Buildings at the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center, believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, north of Kashgar in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region. As many as 1m ethnic Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are believed to be held in a network of internment camps in Xinjiang. Picture: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images

  • How I Survived a Chinese ‘Re-education’ Camp: A Uyghur Woman’s Story 
  • Gulbahar Haitiwaji and Rozenn Morgat 
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