Between Dictatorship and Democracy. Life of Sairagul Sauytbay in Sweden
Sairagul Sauytbay, who escaped political repression in China in 2018 and crossed the border with Kazakhstan illegally, has been living in Sweden for a year and a half. The Swedish government granted her political asylum, which she was unable to obtain in Kazakhstan. Sairagul, with her husband and their two children are now citizens of this country.
Sairagul travels to European countries, speaks at parliamentary meetings and conferences, talks about what she had to endure in the "political re-education camp" in Xinjiang. She co-authored a book on the persecution of ethnic minorities in China. Sauytbay compares the system of China that is being established by the Communist Party with the democratic politics of the West, talking about the life and culture of the countries she got to live in.