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Michael Dillon: Uyghur Identity, 5 January 2023

The Great Dispossession: Uyghurs between Civilisations 
by Ildiko Bellér Hann and Chris Hann.
Lit Verlag, 296 pp., £35, February, 978 3 643 91367 8
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How I Survived a Chinese ‘Re-education’ Camp: A Uyghur Woman’s Story 
by Gulbahar Haitiwaji and Rozenn Morgat, translated by Edward Gauvin.
Canbury, 250 pp., £18.99, February, 978 1 912454 90 7
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The Chief Witness: Escape from China’s Modern-Day Concentration Camps 
by Sayragul Sauytbay and Alexandra Cavelius, translated by Caroline Waight.
Scribe, 320 pp., £16.99, May 2021, 978 1 913348 60 1
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In the Camps: Life in China’s High-Tech Penal Colony 
by Darren Byler.
Atlantic, 152 pp., £12.99, February, 978 1 83895 592 2
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... appeared last year. She now lives outside China.In complete contrast, the author of Chief Witness, Sayragul Sauytbay, is a member of the Kazakh minority in Xinjiang and was a teacher rather than a detainee. Her account is autobiographical, concentrating on her early life and her family: the camps aren’t mentioned until halfway through the book. ...

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Ben Mauk: Prisons in the Mountains, 26 September 2019

... Kazakhstan near the Chinese border, reporting on the extradition trial of an asylum seeker named Sayragul Sauytbay. She claimed she had been forced to teach Mandarin in a political re-education camp near her home town in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China’s largest and most ethnically diverse administrative territory. It was rumoured that such ...

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