Tragic treatment of Muslims in Chinese detention centers, released man recounts

Beijing(94 News, Web Desk) From time to time, such stories of atrocities on Muslims in China's detention centers come to the fore that one shudder to hear. Now a man released from a detention center has told the world the harrowing story of his torture. The man's name is Umar Bayali, who is primarily a citizen of Kazakhstan, but his mother is a Uighur Muslim woman. He ran a tourism company. Once when he visited his mother in Xinjiang, he was arrested by the police.

Umar said that he was taken to the police station where he was brutally tortured with an iron rod and then a few hours later a doctor came who took blood samples from his body and checked his organs thoroughly. "I can say with certainty that they wanted to remove my organs. After the doctor left, they crushed my hands with a hammer. They tied me to a chair they called the 'tiger chair,'" Umar said.

Umar said, "I spent 7 months and 10 days in the detention center and was subjected to the worst torture every day. My wife in Kazakhstan campaigned for my release, which forced the Chinese police to release me. I am one of the few lucky people who got out of these detention centers alive."