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Turkel, Nury

Summary: Laying bare China's repression of the Uyghur people, the former president of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and now a commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, drawing on his own personal story, exposes the historic injustice behind the greatest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TURKEL, NURY TUR

Izgil, Tahir Hamut

Summary: "A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IZGIL, TAHIR HAMUT IZG

Sauytbay, Sayragul

Summary: "Born in China's north-western province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime: being Kazakh, one of China's ethnic minorities. The north-western province borders the largest number of foreign nations and is the point in China that is closest to Europe. In recent...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAUYTBAY, SAYRAGUL SAU

Haitiwaji, Gulbahar

Summary: "Born in 1966 in Ghulja in the Xinjiang region, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was an executive in the Chinese oil industry before leaving for France in 2006 with her husband and children, who obtained the status of political refugees. In 2017 she was summoned in China for an administrative issue. Once there, she was arrested and spent more than two years in a re-education camp. Thanks to the efforts of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAITIWAJI, GULBAHAR HAI

Hoja, Gulchehra

Summary: An award-winning Uyghur journalist based in the United States, whose own family members disappeared into concentration camps, exposes the systematic destruction of culture and human rights by the Chinese government in the East Turkestan region.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOJA, GULCHEHRA HOJ

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