My wife was detained, released, and disappeared again in China. Here's my message on behalf of my people, the Uighurs.

Courtesy of Mamutjan Abdurehim

• Mamutjan Abdurehim is from Kashgar, Xinjiang — the Chinese region known now for its severe surveillance, arbitrary detentions, and forced labor.
• Abdurehim was separated from his wife and two young children in 2015, when they were forced to return to Xinjiang under the guise of a goverment request for a passport renewal. He stayed in Malaysia, where he was studying.
• His wife was taken from their Kashgar home in April 2017 and sent to one of China's detention camps for Uighur Muslims.
• Two years later, Abdurehim found out through a WeChat video that she was released from the prisons and back living in Kashgar.
• He has now discovered, through via coded messages from sources back home, that she has since disappeared again and likely is jailed for five years.
• In a personal essay for Insider, Abdurehim tells his story and explains why he is speaking out.
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No words can properly describe how agonizing the past three years have been for me. I never imagined what it would be like to lose my family to a black hole where nobody knows what happens.

I am from Kashgar, a city in Xinjiang, western China. The region has in recent years become synonymous with severe surveillance, arbitrary detentions, and forced labor.

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