A Uighur man recorded life inside a high-security Chinese internment camp. Here's what he said it was like.

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• Mergan Ghappar, a 31-year-old Uighur man from Xinjiang, China, had been working as a model in Foshan, southern China.
• He disappeared in January after authorities said he was being put on a flight home, according to the BBC and The Globe and Mail.
• More than a month later, he contacted his family to say he was in an internment camp for Uighurs in Xinjiang, and described the brutal conditions there, the BBC reported.
• Ghappar had smuggled a cell phone into the camp, and was able to record footage of himself and the camp's conditions, which have since been passed to the BBC and The Globe and Mail.
• The video provides a rare glimpse into life inside a Chinese internment camp.
• Ghappar's footage and testimony mirror those from other former inmates at China's detention camps for Uighurs.
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A Uighur man has documented what it was like inside one of China's secretive, high-security internment camps, where he said he heard the constant sound of prisoners screaming, and was told he would be beaten to death if he didn't follow orders.

Mergan Ghappar, a 31-year-old model, left the western region of Xinjiang in 2009 and began a modeling career in Foshan, southern China. He was arrested in 2018 and sentenced to 16 months in prison for selling cannabis, which his friends told the BBC as an exaggerated charge.

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