Awaiting arrest in the dead of night / Tahir Hamot Izgil / Shokan

Awaiting arrest in the dead of night / Tahir Hamot Izgil / Shokan

Memoirs of a Uighur poet about the genocide in China. ​For years, the Chinese government persecuted the Uyghur people, a Muslim minority concentrated in western China. In 2017, the persecution took a more frightening turn, when the Chinese government began operating new surveillance systems. As a result, more than a million people disappeared, arrested and sent to "re-education" camps.

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