Word: beydulla
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...know who you are! We know you were in Turkey, what you did in Turkey!” the police said once they arrived at the station in the first of many interrogation sessions, Beydulla recalled...
...said ‘no, I didn’t do anything,’” Beydulla said. “So they sent me to jail and said, ‘you will be wise if you stay in jail a little while...
...Beydulla was kept in prison for eight days. “No bathroom, almost no food,” he described. “We drink a little soup...
...Beydulla is a political refugee in the United States and a Uyghur (pronounced WEE-gurr). Uyghurs are a minority in Western China who, like the Tibetans, are engaged in a struggle against the Chinese government for increased freedoms. During the 2007-2008 academic year, he participated in the Scholars at Risk program at Harvard and is now a language teacher for the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department...
...Beydulla went to Turkey’s Ankara University to study Uyghur history because China did not offer an extensive enough program on the subject and his request for a visa to study in the United States was denied...