How I survived a Chinese 're-education' camp for Uighurs
www.theguardian.com
The long read: After 10 years living in France, I returned to China to sign some papers and I was locked up. For the next two years, I was systematically dehumanised, humiliated and brainwashed

a completely unsourced rant, from the same people that peddled the 'Iraq has WMD's' bullshit.

Some names have been changed.

Was Adrien Zenz one of them?

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    My husband, Kerim, had left Xinjiang in 2002 to look for work. He tried first in Kazakhstan, but came back disillusioned after a year. Then in Norway. Then France, where he had applied for asylum. Once he was settled there, our two girls and I would join him.

    ...

    “You must come back to Karamay to sign documents concerning your forthcoming retirement, Madame Haitiwaji,”

    So she fled to France as wife of an asylum seeker but then returned to China to sign some paperwork?

    How many people suffering actual life-threatening persecution return to the persecuting country to fill in a form?

    Sounds like she's either making things up or is just not very bright.

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I think there's way more to the story than she's letting on. I wouldn't be surprised if she's involved with some intelligence agency.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I wonder if she'll hide it better than the Uighur woman who did an AMA on reddit who got dunked on because her LinkedIn said she worked for the CIA.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      Sounds like she’s either making things up or is just not very bright.

      A thin premise followed by ten thousand words documenting the atrocities. It's a shell game.

      We've already seen stories about Chinese bureaucrats trying to trick or pressure Liu Changming into returning to stand trial by denying his family exit-visas after he fled the country in a $1.4B fraud scandal.

      We've got a story about a NYPD officer spying for the Chinese on Tibetan monks.

      All this plays into a general narrative about the Chinese stalking people and kidnapping them in order to do evil Chinese Totalitarianism at them.