National Post/Washington Post: Former inmates of China's Muslim 'reeducation' camps tell of brainwashing and torture
Experts say Beijing has turned the troublesome Xinjiang region into a surveillance state, with ubiquitous checkpoints and widespread use of facial recognition technology
BEIJING — Kayrat Samarkand says his only “crime” was being a Muslim who had visited neighbouring Kazakhstan. On that basis alone, he was detained by police, aggressively interrogated for three days, then dispatched in November to a “reeducation camp” in China’s western province of Xinjiang for three months.
There, he faced endless brainwashing and humiliation, he said in an interview, was forced to study Communist propaganda for hours every day, and chant slogans giving thanks and wishing long life to President Xi Jinping.
“Those who disobeyed the rules, refused to be on duty, engaged in fights or were late for studies were placed in handcuffs and ankle cuffs for up to 12 hours,” he said. Further disobedience would result in waterboarding or long periods strapped in agony in a metal contraption known as a “tiger chair,” he said, a punishment he said he suffered.
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