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A member of the Chinese Uyghur minority on Monday told reporters in Washington her story that she was tortured in Chinese internment camps, the Associated Press reported. Mihrigul Tursun, 29, said she was jailed only three times because she belonged to the ethnic group whose members are mainly Muslims. She said that she had been jailed for the first time for three months in 2015 and separated from her then-young triplets. One of the children died, she said, while the other two developed health problems and were "operated on". Tursun also stated that she had been "interrogated for four consecutive days without sleep" after her second arrest in 2017. Seven months later, she added that she had again been arrested and forced to stay in her home. a prison cell "required" with about 60 other women. Tursun stated that she had been electrocuted several times, that she had been given an "unknown medicine" causing fainting and bleeding, and that she had been forced to sing songs praising the Party. Chinese Communist. She said nine women died in her cell during her last three months of imprisonment. "I thought I would rather die than suffer this torture and begged them to kill me," Tursun told reporters. The Chinese government denied the existence of Uyghur internment camps and said that the structures housing the group members are "training centers for employment".
