Tursunay Ziyawudun
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Tursunay Ziyawudun | |
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| Born | 10 August 1978 |
| Known for | Former detainee in Xinjiang re-education camps |
Tursunay Ziyawudun (Uighur: تۇرسۇنئاي زىياۋۇدۇن; born 10 August 1989), born in Kunes of Xinjiang, is a former Uyghur detainee in one of the re-education camps in Xinjiang, China.
Testimony[]
Ziyawudun claims that she was taken to one of the internment camps in April of 2017 and was released after a few months, but she was detained in March of 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 of 2019.[1] She then gave interviews to the press describing the emotional trauma of the re-education center, but acknowledged that she was not personally abused or violated.[2] Despite making this claim, she also told the Associated Press that she was physically abused during interrogation and that she is now unable to have children.[3]
See also[]
- Uyghur Americans
- Xinjiang re-education camps
- Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act
- Magnitsky Act
- United States sanctions against China
- Atrocity propaganda
References[]
- ^ "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.
“I wasn’t beaten or abused,” she said. “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.
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- Living people
- Uyghurs
- 1989 births
- Chinese expatriates in the United States
- Propaganda in the United States