China: Women Who Were Held In “Re-Education” Camps Claim They Were Sterilized

China is forcibly sterilising women held in its vast network of “re-education” camps which house political and religious prisoners, survivors have claimed. One woman, who was held for more than a year, has told French television that she was repeatedly injected with a substance by doctors in a prison in the far-west region of Xinjiang. “We had to stick our arms out through a small opening in the door,” Gulbahar Jalilova, a 54-year-old former detainee, told France 24. “We soon realised that after our injections that we didn’t get our periods any more.” She and up to 50 other women were crammed into a tiny cell “like we were just (a) piece of meat”, she said. Speaking to an Amnesty International conference recently, another woman, Mehrigul Tursun, 30, told a similar story of being unknowingly sterilised.