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Being Uighur in China: ‘They tortured me for hours’
- Friday 4 September 2020, 4:34pm
Turkey’s Uighur population in exile live far from home but distance does not dim their fear.Their lives are ones of suspicion and unease. They may be far from China but they fear Chinese reach.That fear may be well-placed based on an interview we conducted this week with a young Uighur man who says he was tortured in China and forced to spy on his own people.
Mehmet had been abroad to see his father and when returned to China he was detained for 16 months.
He said: “They asked me what task were you asked to do when you came back?”
“I said, ‘I am just a chef, what other task is it possible for me to do?’”