For three years Gulbahar Haitiwaji was held in Chinese detention centers and 'reeducation' camps, enduring interrogations, torture, hunger, police violence, brainwashing, forced sterilization, freezing cold, rats, and nights under the blinding fluorescent lights of her prison cell. Her only crime? Being a Uyghur. In How I Survived a Chinese 'Reeducation' Camp, Gulbahar tells her story, describing the insidious nature of oppression, the dehumanizing effects of torture and brainwashing, and the human drive to survive - and resist - under even the most horrific circumstances. This new paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author.
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For three years Gulbahar Haitiwaji was held in Chinese detention centers and 'reeducation' camps, enduring interrogations, torture, hunger, police violence, brainwashing, forced sterilization, freezing cold, rats, and nights under the blinding fluorescent lights of her prison cell. Her only crime? Being a Uyghur. In How I Survived a Chinese 'Reeducation' Camp, Gulbahar tells her story, describing the insidious nature of oppression, the dehumanizing effects of torture and brainwashing, and the human drive to survive - and resist - under even the most horrific circumstances. This new paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author.