In the Chinese camps, the hell of the Uyghurs
Torture, deportations, "re-education" campaigns, forced labor, sexual violence, sterilizations and mass forced abortions... The extent and sophistication of the repression of the Muslim minority by the Chinese government is increasingly documented.
Gulbahar Jalilova takes a pile of documents out of her bag. There is a letter from the Chinese authorities telling her family that she is "a terrorist", and images gleaned from the Internet "to give us an idea": a tiny cell overcrowded with inmates, a metal interrogation chair called the "tiger chair" used as an instrument of torture in China and the pride of Chinese police officers on Douyin (the original Chinese version of TikTok, the social network prized by billions of teenagers around the world).
KEYWORDS: CHINA CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY GENOCIDE UYGHURS REPRESSION FORCED STERILIZATIONS XI JINPING