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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/uigh...ese-detention-camp_n_5f2da3cbc5b6e96a22b255a7
Secret footage and text messages believed to have been filmed inside a Chinese detention center by a 31-year-old Uighur man offer a terrifying glimpse into the allegedly unsanitary and inhumane conditions experienced by prisoners in China’s so-called “re-education centers,” where Uighur Muslims have been imprisoned en masse.
The BBC and the Globe and Mail reported this week that Merdan Ghappar, a once-successful model, managed to gain access to his phone while in detention in the Uighur autonomous region of Xinjiang and had surreptitiously sent a video and a series of text messages to family members in Europe.
The video shows Ghappar handcuffed to a bed in a small and empty room as propaganda messages are heard in the background, apparently piped through a speaker system.
Ghappar’s text messages tell of cramped and unhygienic conditions, psychological and physical trauma, and the screams of his fellow inmates who Ghappar said were tortured and beaten.
Ghappar sent the video and the series of text messages five months ago, his family told the BBC. The messages stopped abruptly, the family said, and they haven’t heard from Ghappar since. They said they hoped that by sharing his video and messages that more awareness would be raised of Ghappar’s plight — and that of the Uighurs as a whole.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government has been accused of imprisoning between 1 and 3 million Uighurs in detention camps. As The Guardian noted, it is the largest mass incarceration of an ethnic-religious minority since World War II.
The BBC said this week that it had pressed the Chinese Foreign Ministry and Xinjiang authorities to comment on Ghappar’s detention and whereabouts; but neither responded, the outlet said.
Secret footage and text messages believed to have been filmed inside a Chinese detention center by a 31-year-old Uighur man offer a terrifying glimpse into the allegedly unsanitary and inhumane conditions experienced by prisoners in China’s so-called “re-education centers,” where Uighur Muslims have been imprisoned en masse.
The BBC and the Globe and Mail reported this week that Merdan Ghappar, a once-successful model, managed to gain access to his phone while in detention in the Uighur autonomous region of Xinjiang and had surreptitiously sent a video and a series of text messages to family members in Europe.
The video shows Ghappar handcuffed to a bed in a small and empty room as propaganda messages are heard in the background, apparently piped through a speaker system.
Ghappar’s text messages tell of cramped and unhygienic conditions, psychological and physical trauma, and the screams of his fellow inmates who Ghappar said were tortured and beaten.
Ghappar sent the video and the series of text messages five months ago, his family told the BBC. The messages stopped abruptly, the family said, and they haven’t heard from Ghappar since. They said they hoped that by sharing his video and messages that more awareness would be raised of Ghappar’s plight — and that of the Uighurs as a whole.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government has been accused of imprisoning between 1 and 3 million Uighurs in detention camps. As The Guardian noted, it is the largest mass incarceration of an ethnic-religious minority since World War II.
The BBC said this week that it had pressed the Chinese Foreign Ministry and Xinjiang authorities to comment on Ghappar’s detention and whereabouts; but neither responded, the outlet said.
