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Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil’s ‘Waiting to Be Arrested At Night’ offers a harrowing glimpse of life as an ethnic minority in China

Por: The Boston Globe Life August 04, 2023

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Facial recognition cameras, DNA sampling, iris- and voice-printing, algorithm-driven arrests, and machines that scan smartphones for “separatist content” — these high-tech methods have horrified the world since 2017, when we first started learning that up to two million people were imprisoned or detained in camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur region, the Central Asian territory that China annexed in 1949. But Tahir Hamut Izgil’s chilling memoir... + full article



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