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A poets account of one of the worlds most urgent humanitarian crises and a harrowing tale of a familys escape from genocide

One by one Tahir Hamut Izgils friends disappeared The Chinese governments brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale The Uyghurs a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century amplified by Chinas establishment of an allseeing hightech surveillance state Over a million people have vanished into Chinas internment camps for Muslim minorities

Tahir a prominent poet and intellectual had been no stranger to persecution After he attempted to travel abroad in 1996 police tortured him until he confessed to fabricated charges and sent him to a reeducation through labour camp But even having endured three years in the camp he could never have predicted the Chinese governments radical solution to the Uyghur question two decades later When he noticed that the park near his home was nearly empty because so many neighbours had been arrested he knew the police would be coming for him any day It soon became clear to Tahir and his wife that fleeing the country was the familys only hope

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is the story of the political social and cultural destruction of Tahir Hamut Izgils homeland Among leading Uyghur intellectuals and writers he is the only one known to have escaped China since the mass internments began His book is a call for the world to awaken to the unfolding catastrophe and a tribute to his friends and fellow Uyghurs whose voices have been silenced

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