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    WITNESS TO HORROR

    May 16, 2021 6 minutes
    Review by JEREMY REES

    In 2018, Sayragul Sauytbay, a Kazakh doctor and teacher, escaped over the border from Xinjiang in China’s far west into neighbouring Kazakhstan without a passport. A few weeks later, she was picked up by the police and put before a court to decide whether she should be deported back to China.

    Her subsequent trial, covered by global media, was significant. Sauytbay testified that she had been taken against her will to teach in an internment camp, run by the Chinese state and filled with Uyghur and Kazakh inmates. She testified about beatings, mistreatment and torture and that inmates had been injected with unknown drugs, possibly to sterilise them.

    In the end, the court decided she could not be deported back to China. Her testimony added to evidence of crimes against Muslim minorities, such as the Uyghurs and Kazakhs, in Xinjiang.

    is her nightmarish account of what happened, as told to German author Alexandra Cavelius, the biographer of Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer. It has been available in German for a year

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