For three years, she endured hundreds of hours of interrogation, torture, hunger, police violence, head-packing, forced sterilization, cold, rats, nights under the blinding neon of a cell, Kafkaesque destruction mechanisms. Her name is Gulbahar Haitiwaji and she is the first Uyghur woman survivor of Chinese re-education camps who dares to speak out. These camps are to China what the Gulag was to the USSR. Since 2017, more than a million Uyghurs have been deported there. The Uyghurs are a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group who inhabit Xinjiang. Gulbahar's testimony is terrifying: she recounts what she experienced in the bowels of the Chinese concentration camp system and how she was saved thanks to the restless negotiations of her daughter.

