China’s detention camps not safe for women and children as rape cases registerd

Webinar Sidik witnessed an unprecedented scenario on her first day at her school. She works in China’s detention camp, educating the children. Webinar claimed that she saw two soldiers carry a young Uyghur woman out of the building on a stretcher.

According to her statement “There was no spark of life in her face. Her cheeks were drained of color, she was not breathing,” she exclaimed, a former elementary school teacher who says she was forced to spend several months teaching at two detention centers in Xinjiang in 2017.

The policewoman claimed to have been assigned to investigate reports of rape at the center by her superiors, Sidik told to media. However, she said what she heard and saw herself was so disturbing that it made her ill.

Sidik’s allegations are similar to those of former detainees who have spoken of rape sexual assault within China’s vast detention network.

The Chinese government has rejected allegations of genocide, and in a statement to the media “there is no so-called ‘systematic sexual assault and abuse against women’ in Xinjiang.”