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July 19, 2025 - Epoch Times
04:14
The CCP Sentenced My Sister to 20 Years in Prison to Silence Me: Rushan Abbas
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24 members of my husband's family went missing.
And when I talked about that, they went after my sister.
The government detained my sister to silence me.
So basically, me living in the United States since 1989, being a U.S. citizen since 1995, it did not matter.
Because of my family tide, they took my sister to punish me.
So this is actually a part of China's transnational repression, and it should be recognized as international crime because the Chinese government is not only targeting people like the Uyghurs and the Falun Gung practitioners or Tibetans or Hong Kongers, but they're coming after all these people living in the Western free world.
There are 102 Chinese police stations in all over the world, in the United States.
So Chinese government uses those police stations to monitor and manipulate and make threats to the citizens of the Uyghurs and Hong Kong or Tibetans or Falun Gung practitioners.
What do you make of some American and other influencers going to China and seemingly having great experiences with people who appear to be Uyghurs on camera?
Even when I was living back home, we used to see that happening a lot.
Even we, in our home, we hosted some foreign visitors.
The government brings some people, like my father being one of the Uyghur scholars, we used to host some delegations visiting some scholars.
And they bring in all kinds of fancy chefs and they bring all kinds of lamb and food and all exotic fruit that we have never seen in our lives.
Who knows where they shipped from?
And they put on the table and make this really huge fancy fist and show them this is the ordinary life of the Uyghurs.
So this is like 35, 40 years ago.
So now, whitewashing the genocide, the Chinese government is using the influencers or Westerners or the people who have large followers on the YouTube or Twitter and taking them to Potankin-style visits.
And the visit is paid by the Chinese government and it's being controlled by the Chinese government.
They will only get to see certain people who's pre-arranged and visit certain areas that's set up like a stage and they talk to people who are coached to answer.
If anybody says anything wrong or speak the reality, they will disappear the next day.
So the world should not be fooled by those whitewashing efforts by the Chinese government, which currently is spending millions and billions of dollars on that to whitewash the genocide, spreading disinformation, and fill the world with false narratives about the reality.
But the reality is that the Uyghurs are facing full-fledged active genocide.
There are reports from the UN Human Rights Council documenting all this horrible situation.
Not just that, we've got times after time the Chinese government's own leaked data supporting everything what we are saying.
So it's not like I am saying as the sister of a victim or activist or someone else is talking about this because she or he was a former camp victims and they have actually experienced those and speaking the truth.
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