“On July 18, 2017, all women between the ages of 18 and 50 in my community of Urumqi were summoned for a mandatory 'free checkup.' At 8am, there was already a long line in front of the hospital. When it was my turn, there was no gynecological examination and no interview. They made me lie down and spread my legs, and inserted an intrauterine device, a very violent procedure. I cried, I felt humiliated, physically and mentally attacked. But I worked in a concentration camp and I knew what awaited me if I refused.”
Kalibinuer Sidike is from the Uyghur region, which is ruled by China, and is the wife of a Uyghur man and a teacher.
She was assigned as a Chinese language teacher in a detention camp in early 2017 before being transferred in September to an all-female facility housing about 10,000 women. She was forced to be fitted with an intrauterine device in 2017 and forced to undergo sterilization in early 2019, and she arrived in the Netherlands in late 2019 to seek asylum. In the past, Ms. Kalibinuer Sidike has spoken in the media in several countries about the experiences she saw in the 're-education' camps, such as mass arrests, torture, rape, forced labor ......
Japanese manga artist Tomomi Shimizu presents Ms. Kisetsusha's story in manga.
Ms. Kalibinuer Sidike has traveled as far as the United States in 2023 to testify before the US Congress and Texas legislative hearings,, and to appear before the California House of Representatives.
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