My Sister's Abduction: Rushan Abbas on the CCP’s Tactics to Control and Manipulate the Uyghur Diaspora
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Back in September 2018, just days after Rushan Abbas spoke at a Hudson Institute panel about the genocide of the Uyghurs, authorities in China arrested her sister and her aunt.
“Two of my closest living relatives left back home, they both got picked up on the same day from 1,400 kilometers away from each other … as retaliation for my speaking out,” Ms. Abbas says.
Her sister was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Many Uyghurs abroad are being blackmailed by the Chinese regime and their families held hostage, Ms. Abbas says. She is the founder and executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs.
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| 0:00.0 | Two of my closest living relatives left back home. |
| 0:04.4 | They both got picked up in the same day |
| 0:06.5 | from 1400 kilometers away from each other. |
| 0:09.9 | It's a retaliation for my speaking out against the CCP. |
| 0:14.2 | Five years ago, the Chinese Communist regime |
| 0:16.8 | detained Rushan Abbas's sister |
| 0:18.8 | and sentenced her to 20 years in prison. |
| 0:21.8 | This is not just staying within their borders. |
| 0:24.8 | They are running police stations. |
| 0:26.9 | They are harassing American citizens. |
| 0:30.0 | Many Uyghurs abroad are being blackmailed |
| 0:32.4 | by the Chinese regime, and their families |
| 0:34.5 | held hostage, says Abbas. |
| 0:36.6 | Evidence is also growing that the Chinese regime |
| 0:39.4 | has expanded its forced organ harvesting industry |
| 0:42.7 | to target Uyghurs. |
| 0:44.4 | Crematorias are being built next to the Guards |
| 0:47.0 | and Crematorias. |
| 0:48.2 | For a culture, it doesn't practice cremation. |
| 0:51.0 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yan Yikellik. |
| 0:54.0 | Rushan Abbas, such a pleasure to have you |
| 0:58.5 | on American Thought Leaders. |
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