State of Mankind

Born in a Chinese Re-Education Camp—USCIRF Commissioner Nury Turkel on the Genocide in Xin Jiang



Nury Turkel was born in a Chinese re-education camp where his mother was imprisoned at the height of China’s Cultural Revolution. Now, he’s a Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. The Chinese Communist Party has been waging a war on faith, Turkel says. Uyghurs Muslims in Xinjiang are being treated as less than human and forcibly sterilized, religious believers are forced to study Xi Jinping thought, and Falun Gong practitioners are being targeted for their organs. What is the Chinese Communist Party doing to religious believers behind closed doors?