Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] My plea to the Canadian government is to put pressure on the Chinese republic to, first and foremost, shut down these camps. Muslim people, Uighur people, like all ordinary people around the globe, should have access to the Inte

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] Only because I am a citizen of Kazakhstan and because of the pressure put out by my children, was I able to get out of this prison. On the contrary, if I were a Chinese citizen, I would have been murdered by now. Because of the

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] I, myself, am a witness. I saw people detained in Chinese prisons for 15 to 20 years. Although people were released, they would be arrested and imprisoned again after a certain amount of time. My time in prison was relatively

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] I would call for a boycott of Chinese products, a boycott of the importation of Chinese goods. Secondly, I would encourage letter writing and sending out emails calling for a shut down to immediately stop the genocide of Uighurs

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] When I was detained, I was 52 years old. Now I am 56. At the time of my detention my youngest child was 15 years old, and the eldest 35. While I was detained, my elder child took care of the younger ones. At the time I was very

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] When I was detained in prison, I had been detained together with others: the youngest girl was aged 14 and the eldest detainee was 80 years old. They were all innocent. They committed no crime at all.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Russian, interpreted as follows:] My sincere thanks to the Canadian government for the opportunity to speak today on behalf of my people, the Uighurs. I would like Canada to be actively involved in stopping China's genocide of the Uighur people. We know that Ca

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] I live in Turkey in a constant and permanent state of fear. I am followed by the Chinese police. The Turkish police even approached me to ask me who those people following me were. We receive threats over the telephone. It is ve

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] So the girls would cease having menstrual cycles. If we were hungry, we would not feel hunger and we would lose any feelings of pain, so we were numb after all the procedures. I was not able to recall my own children. I was lo

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My psychology is not good.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] These detainees knew in advance that they were given death sentences, so they would have to wait one, two, three months, and when the time came they would put black coats over their heads and they were taken away.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] Yes, it is a wiping us out by elimination. I was begging them to kill me instead of enduring this torture, where they would put a black hood on me and take me out to rape, to torture me, so I was pleading with them to kill me.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] I will tell you about my personal experience. I went as a tourist on many occasions, from Kazakhstan. I was conducting business. I am an ethnic Uighur, but when I would travel into the region local Uighurs would not try to appro

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur, interpreted as follows:] Can I add something? I would like to ask maybe for guidance. I was detained for one year and three months. I was accused of terrorism. Having endured so much suffering, I'm just asking, who will pay the price for doing this to m

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Uighur and Russian, interpreted as follows:] Thank you very much and my greetings to you all. Thank you for this opportunity. I would like to tell my tragic story and talk about the tragedy of my people. My name is Gulbahar Jelilova. I am a citizen of Kazakhst