WATCH: Masked Uyghurs in China lining up outside Yengisar station near Kashgar; preparing to board a plane from Hotan to work in Fujian and Guangxi provinces; and standing in formation outside Akto station. Video courtesy of CODA Story Read:
in Xinjiang has reported that these work placements will “emancipate the mind and eliminate old habits.”
After her release in June 2018, Dawut left Xinjiang. The following year, she flew to the U.S., where she now lives. Using a cellphone that she brought with her from China, she is still able to access Douyin, which is usually firewalled outside of the country.Dawut engaged with the content via likes and comments, so theshowed her more. Though some of the footage sent her way originated from state media agencies, dozens of videos were posted by Uyghurs themselves.
One video found by Dawut, posted to Douyin by a Xinjiang news outlet in March, shows a group of more than 500 Uyghurs arriving for a work placement in Korla. The footage includes their new accommodation: austere rooms fitted with bunk beds, shared kitchenettes and a common living area. Forced labor also forms part of Xinjiang’s prison system. Nursimangul Abdurashid, 32, left the province in 2013. She now lives with her husband and six-year-old daughter in Turkey, where she works as a marketing executive. In the years since she left the city of Kashgar, her parents and two brothers have been detained, and the family home now stands empty.
Abdurashid now fears that both of her brothers – aged 30 and 34 – have been pushed deeper into Xinjiang’s forced labor system. Now, she scours the faces of Uyghur workers in Douyin videos, trying to find out what has happened to them. Video: A group of 179 people line up to hear a speech about the “beauty of hard labor” before departing on a charter flight from Hotan, southwestern Xinjiang, to labor programs in Fujian and Guangxi.
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