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https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-camps-china/

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   Jelil grew up in Kazakhstan but identifies strongly with her Uyghur heritage, and because of this — and the stories she heard from women between the ages of 14 and 80 in the detention centers — she felt compelled to speak out.  This was why she had come to Turkey, where Uyghurs have a great deal more freedom to speak freely.

“I am a Uyghur woman,” she said in the Pidaiylar Biz interview.  “My blood is Uyghur.  I want to speak to the Chinese police who detained me for suspecting I was a terrorist.  Why did they not release me after three months or six months?  Why did they detain me for one year, three months?  What kind of investigation was this?  What wrong have I done?  I want answers.  Why did they say I was acquitted?  Why?  I want answers.  What did I do?  They said I was a terrorist.  Why did they torture me?”

Jelil, whose nationality is Kazakhstani, recounts how it began:  last year she was asked by a business associate, an ethic Kazakh Chinese citizen, to go to Ürümchi to pick up some consumer goods that she planned to sell in Almaty — a shuttle trade business she had been involved in for nearly 20 years.  When she arrived she was immediately detained.  Jelil did not know that authorities had forced her business partner, also detained, to invite her.   https://supchina.com/2018/12/05/starving-and-subdued-in-xinjiang-detention-centers/