Millions of mostly Muslim minorities are held in internment centres across Xinjiang, China, and others forced to work for far less than the local minimum wage.
Auelkhan says she was part of a network of mostly Muslim minorities in Xinjiang who pass from what China calls “vocational training centres” to factories where they are forced to work for far less than the local minimum wage.
China says the education centres are part of its efforts to fight terrorism and separatism in Xinjiang – a region populated by mostly Muslim minority groups – and denies any use of forced labour. Auelkhan has residency rights in Kazakhstan but had travelled to China to see family when she was detained and put into a re-education centre.
Auelkhan said she was paid only 320 yuan for close to two months’ work before her time at the factory was curtailed in December and she was allowed to return to her family in Kazakhstan. Auelkhan believes she was only released from forced labour because of a public campaign launched by her husband and supported by a Xinjiang-focused rights group in Almaty.Originally, re-education officials had told her and other centre residents that they would be “at disposal” for at least six months, she said.
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