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The cost of speaking up against Communist China

… Sedik was in the kitchen of her temporary home in the Netherlands, where she shared a room with several other refugees, mostly from Africa. Two weeks earlier, she and three other women had spoken to the BBC for a story about alleged rape and torture in China’s secretive detention camps in the Xinjiang region, where Sedik worked as a camp teacher.

Now her sister was calling.

She hit answer, but when the picture appeared it wasn’t her sister on the screen, it was a policeman from her hometown in Xinjiang.

“What are you up to Qelbinur?” he said, smiling. “Who are you with?”

If I were king companies doing business with Communist China would be publicly named and shamed and even shuttered if need be.

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