Mihrigul Tursun
Former Uyghur detainee
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| 2019 | A Japanese comic book 'What Has Happened to Me – A Testimony of a Uyghur Woman', illustrated by Tomomi Shimizu and based on Tursun's story, became a viral hit on the Internet. |
| 2019 | The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China publicly denies Tursun's allegations about her detention and treatment in Xinjiang internment camps. |
| December 2018 | Tursun received the Citizen Power Award for her advocacy and testimony about her experiences in Chinese internment camps. |
| November 28 2018 | Tursun testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, detailing her experience of three internments, describing overcrowded cells where prisoners had to rotate sleeping positions and some had not showered for over a year. |
| November 26 2018 | Mihrigul Tursun gave testimony at National Press Club in Washington, DC, claiming detainees in internment camps are beaten, starved, electrocuted, and strip-searched. |
| September 2018 | Mihrigul Tursun immigrated to the United States with her two remaining children. |
| April 2018 | Tursun left China with her husband (an Egyptian) and children, returning to Egypt. |
| January 2018 | Tursun was detained for a third time by Chinese authorities. |
| May 20 2017 | Mihrigul Tursun was released from police custody after 20 days of detention, as stated by the Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying. |
| April 21 2017 | Mihrigul Tursun was taken into custody by Qiemo County police on suspicion of inciting ethnic hatred and discrimination, according to the Chinese government's account. |
| 2015 | Tursun last saw her husband before he was reportedly arrested and sentenced to 16 years in prison upon returning to China in 2016. |
| May 2015 | After returning from Egypt where she was studying, Tursun was allegedly taken into custody by Chinese authorities and imprisoned in Xinjiang internment camps. During this detention, one of her infant sons died in a hospital under mysterious circumstances. |
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