merdan ghappar was a 31-year-old uyghur model in southern china.targeted han chinese, the country's majority ethnic group. but in january chinese authorities detained him in a xinjiang detention facility full of ethnic minority uyghurs, whom the chinese government calls disloyal. pro-beijing messages play from a loudspeaker. he secretly filmed and sent the video to his uncle, ablikim ghappar, who now lives in amsterdam. >> when i saw the video clip, i really felt sorrow for my nephew. nick: merdan sent text messages describing the conditions of his initial detention in a police station. he wrote, "the cop just shouted fiercely at me, if you lift that hood again i will beat you to death!" merdan adds, "i don't want to die." >> in the detention center, they were tortured. the cell was very small and very crowded, more than 50 or 60 people. every night, some people slept, while some people needed to stand. a hood was on their heads. they're always handcuffed, and their feet were chained. nick: merdan's video, which was first reported by the bbc, is on