Tursunay Ziyawudun
Tursunay Ziyawudun | |
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 Ziyawudun on Reason (magazine) TV in 2021 | |
| Born | 10 August 1978 |
| Known for | Former detainee in Xinjiang internment camps |
Tursunay Ziyawudun (Uyghur: تۇرسۇنئاي زىياۋۇدۇن; born 10 August 1978), born in Kunes of Xinjiang, is a former Uyghur detainee in one of the internment camps in Xinjiang, China.
Testimony
[edit]Ziyawudun claims that she was taken to one of the internment camps in April 2017 and was released after a month, at which time she had developed stomach ulcers, but she was detained in March 2018 for the second time. She was released from the camp in December 2018 and was allowed to go to Kazakhstan to unite with her husband in September 2019.[1][2] She then gave interviews to the press describing the emotional trauma of the internment camp, even while fearing Chinese retaliation.[3] She also told the Associated Press that she was physically abused during interrogation, kicked in the stomach repeatedly and forcibly sterilized. She said that she is now unable to have children.[4][1]
See also
[edit]- Uyghur Americans
- Xinjiang internment camps
- Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act
- Magnitsky Act
- United States sanctions against China
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hill, Matthew; Campanale, David; Gunter, Joel (2 February 2021). "'Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape". BBC News. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
- ^ "A Uighur Woman Who Was At Risk Of Being Forcibly Sent Back To China And Detained Has Arrived Safely In The US". www.buzzfeednews.com. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
- ^ Rajagopalan, Megha (15 February 2020). "She Escaped The Nightmare Of China's Brutal Internment Camps. Now She Could Be Sent Back: Tursunay Ziyawudun thought the nightmare was over. But now the new life she rebuilt for herself is in jeopardy". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on 16 February 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
" The hardest part was mental. It's something I can't explain — you suffer mentally.
- ^ "China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization". Associated Press News. 29 June 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
Another former detainee, Tursunay Ziyawudun, said she was injected until she stopped having her period, and kicked repeatedly in the lower stomach during interrogations. She now can't have children and often doubles over in pain, bleeding from her womb, she said.