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    Post Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State - Survivors speak

    Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State - Survivors of China’s campaign of persecution reveal the scope of the devastation.

    In the spring of 2017, Erbaqyt Otarbai, a forty-three-year-old truck driver living in Kazakhstan, crossed the border into China to accept a job with a mining company in Xinjiang. His wife had recently undergone surgery to remove kidney stones, and he needed money to cover her medical expenses. For the next three months, he crisscrossed the region, hauling iron ore in a hundred-ton truck. By August, he had saved up enough to pay his debts.On the morning of August 16th, the county police in Koktokay, near the mine in northern China where he was based, summoned him to a meeting. At the police station, officers led Otarbai to a room lined with spongy, yellow soundproofing. There was a metal chair with arm and leg restraints, but the officers didn’t make him sit in it. One officer asked him questions in Chinese: When had he moved to Kazakhstan? For what purpose? With whom did he communicate? Did he go to a mosque? Did he pray? Otarbai answered honestly. He hadn’t done anything wrong and wasn’t worried.

    After two hours, the officers released Otarbai but kept his cell phone, saying that they would review its contents. Later that evening, while he was waiting to unload his cargo, he heard a knock on the side of his truck. It was a fellow-driver, who said he had received a call from the company dispatcher. The police were coming to pick up Otarbai, who should unload his truck and wait.
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    On November 22nd, three months after Otarbai entered the detention center, police officers read aloud a list of prisoners who would be transferred to a “political learning center.” More than two dozen detainees were handcuffed, shackled, hooded, and loaded into police minivans. Otarbai was among them.

    This is his story: https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-rep...=pocket-newtab
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    When officers arrived at the processing plant, around noon, they told Otarbai that they’d found a problem with his household registration.....snip~


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    More fiction from the Epoch Times ....(lol)

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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    More fiction from the Epoch Times ....(lol)

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