The wounds once deeply etched across the body of Dr Sayragul Sauytbay by the Chinese state may have healed, but the emotional scars of her year-long detention will haunt her until her dying breath. The former teacher witnessed unimaginable horrors after she was dragged away by Communist guards and forced to work as a language instructor within the brutal confines of an internment camp in Xinjiang. Sauytbay, an ethnic Kazakh-Chinese national now in her late 40s, repeatedly broke down in tears as she recounted the brutality she was subjected to during her eight-month ordeal. She described a hell-on-Earth existence where...