{"id":4574,"date":"2018-11-23T18:52:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T18:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/11\/23\/my-beloved-family-broken-apart\/"},"modified":"2018-11-23T18:52:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T18:52:02","slug":"my-beloved-family-broken-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/my-beloved-family-broken-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"My Beloved Family Is Broken Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am <\/strong>Uyghur<\/strong><\/a>. I have two younger brothers detained in C<\/strong>hinese concentration camps<\/strong><\/a> since almost two years, and my mother has been detained for six months. My contacts with my family has been entirely cut off since May this year. I don\u2019t have any other informations about my family now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My name is Muhammad, I\u2019m from Ornush village of Hotan county, East T\u00fcrkestan (aka Xinjiang, China). There are eight people in my family. They are my aged parents, an older sister, four younger brothers and me.<\/p>\n

I came to Turkey in May 2016 with Turkish visa. After studied math and Turkish language for six months, and passed all the related exams, I successfully enrolled into S\u00fct\u00e7\u00fc \u0130mam University in Kahramanmara\u015f, Turkey, Feb 2017. Currently, I am studying politics and international relations for a MA degree.<\/p>\n

I lost my contact with my family since May 2018, until then I was calling them at least once in a month. In last two years, my family got a lot of troubles from the local Chinese government and the police. They registered my family as \u201cclosely watched family\u201d just because I am in Turkey and questioned them many times. Police threatened them and asked me to go back to China. But, I rejected their request. They forced my family members to ask me to contact with the local police. I contacted them. They wanted my student ID and other official documents from my university. I sent them everything that they asked for, but, still, I ended up with same consequences with my fellow Uyghurs who traveled to Turkey for other reasons.<\/p>\n

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Muhammad Atawulla<\/span><\/span>@Uyghur_0903<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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