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The atrocious reality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-- Gulbahar Haitiwaji to\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eParis Match\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince 2017, more than one million Uyghurs have been deported from their homes in the Xinjiang region of China to reeducation camps. The brutal repression of the Uyghurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group, has been denounced as genocide, and reported widely in media around the world. The Xinjiang Papers, revealed by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e in 2019, expose the brutal repression of the Uyghur ethnicity by means of forced mass detention­--the biggest since the time of Mao. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer name is Gulbahar Haitiwaji and she is the first Uyghur woman to escape from these camps who has dared to speak out. 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Just paperwork, they said. She flew from Paris to Karamay - and vanished. Her passport was seized; months of interrogations followed; after a year in custody she endured a nine-minute trial without judge or lawyers and was sentenced to seven years in a Chinese re-education camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow I Survived a Chinese 'Re-education' Camp is her lucid, courageous account of what happened next. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the first cold night in Karamay County Jail, Haitiwaji invites readers into Cell 202, where the lights never dim, cameras never blink, and a wall poster lists rules that forbid speaking Uyghur or praying - while promising a hollow right to worship. She is chained to a bed for days, fed thin congee and stale bread, and taught how fear erases time. 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