“I have no father,” Abdurahman Tohti’s son told him over the phone. “The Chinese government trained him like that,” said Tohti. “It’s a feeling I cannot describe.” aliceysu reports on the exiled Uyghurs fighting for their families in China:
. It is the largest incarceration of an ethnic or religious minority since the Holocaust. The U.S. and several other nations describe China’s actions as genocide.
Shemsiye Ali, 22, weeps as she talks about her family at her apartment in Istanbul, Turkey, where she is a third-year university nursing student. Her father is among the Uyghurs swept up in China’s crackdown in Xinjiang. It was as if her family in China had vanished into a parallel world. Detentions were so widespread that every Uyghur whom Ali knew had lost someone. She and her sister at first blamed themselves for moving away from China, she said: “Is it because we came here? Is it because we stayed? Maybe if we didn’t come out, he would be free.”
Hasan had fled Turkey — where he was reportedly detained several times — for fear that he would be deported after Turkey signed an extradition agreement with China in 2020. Interpol dropped the red notice against him after advocacy by human rights groups, but a Moroccan court ruled in December that his extradition would proceed.
Abdujelil Turan is the founder of Teklimakan Uyghur Publishing House in Istanbul, Turkey. He left China and settled in Turkey in 1987.
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