'My hell in Beijing's sterilisation camp' by Gulbahar Haitiwaji
“Like more than one million other Uighurs, I was imprisoned in a Chinese ‘re-education’ camp. The camps, which China describes as ‘schools’, claim to ‘eradicate Islamist terrorism from Uighur minds’. In reality, they aim to eradicate an entire ethnicity. I am neither a separatist nor an Islamic terrorist – just a mother – but on the basis of a nine-minute trial, I was sentenced to seven years of ‘re-education’.”