This is CBS on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

The New York Times reporting.

They told her to pack her bags.

She could have been taken to a prison, a detention center, or an internment camp,

just like many other Uyghur Muslims who have vanished sometimes for years.

That's Edward Wong reporting for the New York Times.

Who?

Aisham Mahmute.

Gordon Chang, at Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-host,

and we're very pleased to welcome our longtime colleague

and the author of No Escape,

The True Story of China's Genocide of the

Uyghurs, Nouri Turkle.

Nouri, a very good evening to you.

Who is Aisha Mamu to you, Nouri?

She is my mother.

She's more than a mother to me.

As you alluded, she gave birth to me in a Chinese re-education camp

during the height of the Cultural Revolution.

So my mother and I have a very special bound.

When she walked off the plane at a joint base in Texas,

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