Update dear friends: I’m so overwhelmed now, please forgive me if I could not express myself properly. Today, September 04, 2020, I got a message from my mom that after 2 years and 3 months of arbitrary detention, the Chinese government just released my cousin, Mahire Yakub I had a video chat with Mahire. She looks pale and weak. She lost weight. But she’s overwhelmed and emotional that this day has come. I told her that because a lot of people have helped her and the world is watching what is happening to #Uyghur people, that is why she was able

The government of Xinjiang's conduct of taking at least one Uyghur from every family is basically placing the "Would you kill one person to save five" dilemma upon overseas Uyghurs. When they took my cousin away in 2018, I chose silence for the sake of my parents and her children When my husband found out that my cousin was taken away, he asked me to speak up. I told him: "I can't. They will take away my parents and the three children." My husband responded: "You will regret it." I remember we had a big fight, and I blamed and accused him