The Harrowing Realities of Uyghur Life in China: Rushan Abbas

American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Rushan Abbas reveals how the Chinese communist regime has escalated its campaign against the Uyghurs.

Uyghurs are being mass surveilled, forcibly sterilized, and exploited as slave labor both in Xinjiang and in other provinces across China. There are growing signs of large-scale forced organ harvesting in the region—including an apparent special lane in the city of Kashgar’s airport dedicated to the transport of human organs.

In 2018, the Chinese regime imprisoned Rushan Abbas’s sister Gulshan in an apparent attempt to silence Rushan. Her sister was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and she has since spent almost seven years detained—with no end in sight.

Rushan Abbas is the author of the powerful memoir “Unbroken: One Uyghur’s Fight for Freedom.” She is the founder and executive director of the Campaign for Uyghurs and chairperson of the World Uyghur Congress’s executive committee.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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0:00.0	When this mass detention started, we started to hear that crematory arts are being built next to the concentration camps,
0:07.0	as well as the airports in the major Uyghur cities like Kashgar.
0:12.0	There's a fast lane, special lane dedicated for people who are transporting human organs.
0:19.0	Roushah Nabas is the founder and executive director of the Campaign for Uyghurs and chairperson
0:25.1	of the World Uyghur Congress's Executive Committee.
0:28.1	He just openly said, oh, by re-educating them, we are trying to make them normal persons
0:35.2	in front of this barbaric regime, we are not even normal human
0:40.3	beings.
0:41.3	She's the author of the powerful memoir, Unbroken, when Uyghurs fight for freedom.
0:46.3	They went after my sister.
0:48.3	The government detained my sister to silence me, to punish me.
0:53.3	The people living within China's borders,
0:56.5	your thoughts are being owned, your speech, your expression,
1:01.5	even your movement.
1:03.0	You are being monitored 24-7.
1:05.5	Tyranny survives because of the silence.
1:10.0	Silence is the oxygen of tyranny.
1:13.1	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kelek.
1:17.9	Roshana Bass, such a pleasure to have you back on American Thought Leaders.
1:21.9	Thank you for having me again.
1:23.9	So your book is Unbroken.
1:26.8	How did they try to break you? And who did the attempted breaking?
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