A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. I Managed to Escape. Here's What Really Goes on Inside
October 17, 2019Haaretz
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“In January 2017, they started to take people who had relatives abroad,” Sauytbay says. “They came to my house at night, put a black sack on my head and brought me to a place that looked like a jail. I was interrogated by police officers, who wanted to know where my husband and children were, and why they had gone to Kazakhstan. At the end of the interrogation I was ordered to tell my husband to come home, and I was forbidden to talk about the interrogation.”
She was repeatedly taken in for nocturnal interrogations and falsely accused of various offenses.
In November 2017 . . . she arrived in an unfamiliar place that she soon learned was a “reeducation” camp, which would become her prison in the months that followed.