{"id":1141,"date":"2018-12-14T15:53:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T15:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2018-12-14T15:53:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T15:53:57","slug":"prisoners-tortured-drugged-killed-by-injection-in-xinjiang-re-education-camps-ex-inmate-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Prisoners Tortured, Drugged, Killed by Injection in Xinjiang \u2018Re-Education Camps,\u2019 Ex-Inmate Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Uyghur women detained in China\u2019s so-called \u201cvocational training centers\u201d are being psychologically and physically tortured, poisoned, and killed by injection, a former detainee has told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n

Uyghur and Kazakhstan national Gulbakhar Jalilova, 54, said she witnessed the atrocities during her 15-month internment in an all-female camp in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi before she was released in September.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were girls from my room who passed out from being beaten so hard, and had nails put into their fingers to make blood pour out,\u201d she told The Epoch Times in a phone interview from Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n

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Gulbakhar, a businesswoman who was detained in May 2017, was accused of transferring $17,000 to a company called Nur. She was released after being found innocent.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

While detained, her fellow inmate named Horiyat was \u201cput to sleep \u2026 she was killed by injection.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was injected but her body was still warm, and other girls were ordered to wash her body. She just died like that in front of me,\u201d Gulbakhar explained.<\/p>\n

The alarming reports come after Xinjiang authorities moved to legalize the detention facilities in October, saying they were to \u201ceducate and transform\u201d those whom the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) deems at risk of the \u201cthree evil forces<\/a>\u201d of \u201cextremism, separatism, and terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Uyghurs, alongside other ethnic minorities like the Tibetans, as well as religious believers who remain outside state control, including house Christians and Falun Gong, have long been targeted by the ruling CCP for transformation through \u201cre-education.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

At a U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing on Nov. 29, Sen. Marco Rubio said many observers believe the current wave of repression in China is the \u201cthe most severe since the cultural revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Beijing has continued to push its narrative that what were secret mass detention centers until October are actually facilities for further education in \u201cvocational skills\u201d such as baking and sewing\u2014a claim that goes against multiple testimonies of former detainees, including Gulbakhar\u2019s.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai, told Reuters last month the CCP is trying to \u201cre-educate\u201d Uyghurs to try to \u201cturn them into normal persons (who) can go back to normal life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gulbakhar told The Epoch Times she \u201cnever saw a single classroom\u201d while detained and the education claims are \u201ccomplete lies.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is believed \u201cupwards of 1 million\u201d predominantly ethnic Uyghurs are being held in the mass internment camps, according to figures quoted by the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) and the United Nations.<\/p>\n

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Overcrowded, Dirty Conditions<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

After hours of interrogation over her money transfer, Gulbakhar was handcuffed, put into a yellow uniform, and taken to Urumqi\u2019s\u00a0SanKan<\/a>, which she said was turned into an all-female camp a week prior to her arrival.<\/p>\n

Conditions were overcrowded and dirty, Gulbakhar said, adding that there were \u201cgirls as young as 14\u2014school children\u2014and women as old as 80\u201d in her room.<\/p>\n

The women, whose wrists were bleeding from 5 kilogram (11 pound) handcuffs \u201crubbing against their skin,\u201d took turns to sleep every night because there wasn\u2019t enough space for everyone to lie down.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that small room, there were around 40 lying down and about 15 standing up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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And the food was \u201cnothing that a human being should eat,\u201d Gulbakhar said, referring to the bread as hard as stone and soup made of water and cornflour that she was fed. \u201cIt was hardly enough to survive.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Gulbakhar and her fellow inmates were woken up at 5.30 a.m. every morning, and then forced to stand in two lines and stare at a wall until 8 a.m. \u201cNo talking, no looking sideways, or else you would be punished.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey attach your handcuffs to your ankle chains so you can\u2019t walk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uyghur women were confined to their rooms all day. \u201cThe door only opens to punish you, that\u2019s it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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Psychological and Physical Torture, Drugs, and Poison<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Those in her camp were forced to ingest unknown medicine daily and were injected with a substance every month which \u201cnumbs your emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe injection makes you feel like you have no memory. You don\u2019t miss your family, you don\u2019t feel like you want to get out. You feel nothing\u2014it\u2019s a very strange feeling,\u201d Gulbakhar explained.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Epoch Times, Louisa Greve, Director of External Affairs at the Uyghur Human Rights Project, said the medicine is \u201ccleansing their minds of their personal identity\u201d while \u201crefilling their minds with these repetitive forced loyalty declarations [to the CCP].\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camp officials also put poison in detainees\u2019 food, Gulbakhar said, after she witnessed a 41-year-old restaurant owner fall to the floor while eating.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThere were bubbles and foam coming out of the lady\u2019s mouth as if she were poisoned. She was paralyzed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gulbakhar said the woman was dragged out of the room and \u201cnever came back.\u201d<\/p>\n

A young nurse detainee named Mabret who rushed to the woman\u2019s aid during the episode was immediately punished by camp officials.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTroops came with big sticks and started beating her, dragged her out of the room, and continued beating her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mabret was then taken to a \u201cblack hole\u201d room\u2014an isolation cell\u2014where she was chained to a \u201ctiger chair\u201d for 10 days, Gulbakhar recalled of what the nurse had told her. Mice had been placed in the room as a method of food and sleep deprivation.<\/p>\n

\u201cMabret was so scared and had to fight to keep the mice off her body. She didn\u2019t sleep because she didn\u2019t want to get eaten alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

She was only released from the isolation cell after she apologized with a letter saying that she would \u201cdo better for the CCP,\u201d Gulbakhar explained. But after the ordeal, Mabret was never the same again.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was as if she went insane\u2014she didn\u2019t act normal. It was as if something was wrong with her, from the way she looked to the way she acted.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Oppression of Uyghur Cultural Traditions<\/h4>\n

Detainees were banned from touching their hair while washing their face as it imitates preparation for prayer, Gulbakhar said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Muslim culture, when women or men wash before prayer, they usually touch their hair to make sure they clean-up properly. The camp officials don\u2019t want people to be like that\u2014to prepare for prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This oppression of Uyghur tradition\u2014the majority of whom are Sunni Muslim\u2014comes amid other testimonies from detainees, such as Omir Bekali, who in October told The Epoch Times he was forced to denounce his faith while praising the CCP.<\/div>\n
Source:https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/prisoners-tortured-drugged-killed-by-injection-in-xinjiang-re-education-camps-ex-inmate-reveals_2738106.html<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EpochTime Uyghur women detained in China\u2019s so-called \u201cvocational training centers\u201d are being psychologically and physically tortured, poisoned, and killed by injection, a former detainee has told The Epoch Times. Uyghur and Kazakhstan national Gulbakhar Jalilova, 54, said she witnessed the atrocities during her 15-month internment in an all-female camp in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-asia","category-uyghur-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}