Torture, Sexual Abuse, Sterilization: Uyghur Camp Survivors Testify at Congressional Hearing

“Genocide is occurring, this time at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party,” said House select committee on China chair Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) after hearing graphic testimony about the Chinese government’s treatment of Uyghurs.

“First they shackled my feet and then they detained [me],” Haitiwaji described her arrest. “The woman’s condition in the detention centers are horrible. All women are shackled, and our language… we are all prohibited to speak.” The detainees are tortured and interrogated, Haitiwaji stated.

“The rooms we were kept in had bunk beds, a bucket to serve as a toilet, and cameras panning the room,” Haitiwaji’s written testimony stated. “There was no mattress, no toilet paper, no sheets, nowhere to wash.’

Haitiwaji had to go through 11 hours of Chinese language education every single day, The Daily Signal reported.

Sidik also described apparent forced sterilization and horrific rape of the Uyghur women.