“I thought I was dead”: Kazakhs say they were dragged into bondage and abused at a detention center in China News


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Sitting in a magnificent room in Westminster, Elbakit Otaru Bay is far from home in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. But he can remember it with scars. “These are from handcuffs,” he says, showing his wrist. He pulls up his pants legs. “This scar is when they drag me into my bondage.” Otarbay is Chinese, but ethnically Kazakh. In 2014, he moved to Kazakhstan with his family.He returned to [China](//news.sky.com/topic/china-5869) I was arrested by the police in 2017. They took him to a room with a tiger chair-a metal seat with painful restraints on his hands and feet. “I was...