"Any woman or man under age 35 was raped and sexually
abused," Ruqiye Perhat, a student arrested in Xinjiang in
2009 for four years, told the Post. More recent survivors
say that the camps had made rape more systematic than in
regular prisons; guards would "put bags on the heads of the
ones they wanted" and take the women out of their cells to
be raped all night, returned for their fellow prisoners to
see in the morning. One human rights activist told the Post
they had documented at least seven cases of women being
forced against their will to receive intrauterine devices as
part of their entering the concentration camp, presumably to
keep them from getting pregnant through rape. Those who were arrested while pregnant - often for "crimes" like downloading the messaging application WhatsApp - were forced into harrowing abortions. Gulzira Mogdyn told the Post that Chinese regime officials slashed her open without anesthesia and "cut my fetus out." |
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