{"id":26677,"date":"2021-01-12T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/uighur-xinjiang-re-education-camp-china-gulbahar-haitiwaji"},"modified":"2021-01-12T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:00:32","slug":"how-i-survived-a-chinese-re-education-camp-for-uighurs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26677","title":{"rendered":"How I survived a Chinese &#8216;re-education&#8217; camp for Uighurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 10 years living in France, I returned to China to sign some papers and I was locked up. For the next two years, I was systematically dehumanised, humiliated and brainwashed<\/p>\n<p>The man on the phone said he worked for the oil company, \u201cIn accounting, actually\u201d. His voice was unfamiliar to me. At first, I couldn\u2019t make sense of what he was calling about. It was November 2016, and I had been on unpaid leave from the company since I left China and moved to France 10 years earlier. There was static on the line; I had a hard time hearing him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou must come back to Karamay to sign documents concerning your forthcoming retirement, Madame Haitiwaji,\u201d he said. Karamay was the city in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang where I\u2019d worked for the oil company for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/uighur-xinjiang-re-education-camp-china-gulbahar-haitiwaji\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 10 years living in France, I returned to China to sign some papers and I was locked up. For the next two years, I was systematically dehumanised, humiliated and brainwashedThe man on the phone said he worked for the oil company, \u201cIn accounting, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,447,67,49,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-islam","category-uighurs","category-xi-jinping","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26679,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26677\/revisions\/26679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}