Vendrán a detenerme a media nocheA moving account of the brutal persecution of the Uyghur community in China and the authors escape. Since 2017, the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim Turkic group in Xinjiang, have faced horrific repression under a sophisticated surveillance system. Tahir Hamut Izgil, a Uyghur poet and filmmaker, was detained, tortured, and imprisoned in 1996 after trying to travel. By 2016, with internment camps becoming widespread, Izgil and his wife realized their only hope