Gulbahar Haitiwaji

nonfiction/memoir - current human rights violations in China. A Uyghur woman's very recent imprisonment (~2017-2019+) and eventual release from Xi Jinping's "re-education" camps for political prisoners and how the system is designed to slowly eradicate (through forced imprisonment, pervasive surveillance and intimidation/brainwashing, and forced sterilization) the Uyghurs that live in the Xinjiang region of China.

Detailed and organized account of Gulbahar's experiences and unjust/inhumane treatment, as well as what researchers have been able to dig up about the prison camps and farcical "justice system" that are increasingly being used to this day. She doesn't directly mention any rape, aside from the women taking turns keeping watch at night for unwanted visitors, but she does describe their being systematically humiliated and abused during a forcible cavity search. She also records her experiences with forced sterilization shots that the officials claim to be "vaccinations" (we don't know what was in the shots, but the women prisoners who received it stopped having menses shortly afterwards).

See also: Made in China by Amelia Pang for a Falun Gong prisoner's story about his experiences (more hard labor, more graphic torture).… (mehr)