Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] There is no such possibility because this is all restrained. There is no such thing possible.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] This is our duty.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] I think it's a given that there are activities like these. They exist because China is trying to hide what is happening; it is transferring detainees into interior China to spread out and close these centres. It is a given that, yes, Uighur work is implicated in production.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] Verbal threats are a very normal and routine practice. They've also been subjected to physical abuse and actions.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] There were a number of factors. Number one, I have dual citizenship with Kazakhstan. Number two, my wife was a UNHCR asylum claimer, residing in Kazakhstan for 11 years. While in this process of waiting for asylum hearings by the UNHCR office in Kazakhstan, she was also active in the media demanding my release.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] I will try to say a few words on this topic. I will talk about my personal experience. I was detained in Karamay for eight months, and 90% of those detainees were bureaucrats, professors, teachers, or those involved in the oil-producing industry.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] My dad was killed in a concentration camp in 2019. My mother and my other siblings, brothers, still remain in East Turkestan.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur]

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] In Karamay city, which has a population of about 500, there were seven detention centres like this. In every detention centre, there were 5,000 to 6,000 detainees. I was moved around, and on top of the torture I was enduring, I was also handcuffed and had my feet shackled, so I had to carry about seven kilograms of heavy metal on my body at all times.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur]

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] My greetings. I am in Holland right now. My name is Omerbek Ali. I was born on April 30, 1976, in Pichan County of the city of Turpan. I have a degree from the high technical college. I was employed in the city of Karamay until 2006.