nury turkel is chairman of the uyghur human rights project. he being duped or is china duping the rest of the world? nury turkel, welcome to hardtalk. can you describe for me the experience of being a uighur in xinjiang province these days? imagine you go to church on sunday and you have to go through body scans and imagine that you get up and one morning, the government wants you to marry off your daughter to someone, part of the oppressed ethnic group. imagine that you don't have anyone to confide in, even in your private life and imagine you are forced to denounce your religion and walk away from your centuries old tradition, such as the uighurs. what is happening in the uighurs‘ homeland of east turkestan is cultural revolution on steroids. the chinese government has been so brutal, particularly in the last 16, 18 months, locked up more than 10% of the population according to various reports. we are talking about a population of 10 million people so you are talking about io%, i million uighurs in detention. the numbers could be higher. a h