(ChurchLeaders) Uyghur women detained in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are being subjected to systematic rape and brutal torture, according to accounts told to the BBC by former detainees and a former guard. One of the detainees, Tursunay Ziawudun, said that what she went through is perhaps “the most unforgettable scar on me forever.”
“They were three men. Not one, but three,” said Ziawudun, describing how one night during her nine months in the camp three men took her from her cell and gang-raped her. “They did whatever evil their mind could think of, and they didn’t spare any part of my body, biting it to the extent that it was disgusting to look at. They didn’t just rape; they were barbaric. They had bitten all over my body.”