Muslim women who have fled China's 'concentration camps' have revealed a world of rapes, abortions and sterilisations as they find refuge abroad.
It comes as shocking footage emerged allegedly showing hundreds of shackled and blindfolded Muslim prisoners being transferred in Xinjiang, western China.
UN experts and activists say at least one million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims are held in the detention centres in Xinjiang.
China describes them as 'training centres' helping to stamp out extremism and give people new skills.
But the escaped women and local rights groups say attempts to curb the Muslim population - using methods such as rubbing chilli paste on women's privates - are common.
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Muslim women who have fled China's 'reeducation camps' have revealed a world of rapes, abortions and forced sterilisations as they find refuge abroad. Gulzira Mogdyn (pictured), 38, said officials cut her open and ripped out her fetus without anaesthetic
Student Ruqiye Perhat, who was arrested in Xinjiang in 2009 and spent four years in prison before fleeing to Turkey, told the Washington Post: 'Any woman or man under age 35 was raped and sexually abused.'
And others who have fled the camp more recently claimed the rapes had become more systematic than in normal prisons.
The camps' guards would 'put bags on the heads of the ones they wanted' before dragging the women outside and raping them through the night.
In one case, a human rights activists claimed there had been seven instances of women forced into having intrauterine devices implanted.
And it was claimed women who were pregnant when they were arrested were made to have brutal abortions.
The camps' guards would 'put bags on the heads of the ones they wanted' before dragging the women outside and raping them through the night. Pictured: Gulzira Mogdyn on the phone at a bus stop on the outskirts of Almaty, Kazakhstan
Others have previously said the Chinese guards would also medically experiment on them ahead of planned organ harvesting.
China has been forced to defend its authorities' actions as 'normal tasks' following the emergence of shocking footage purported to show hundreds of shackled and blindfolded Muslim prisoners being transferred.
The drone video shows the detainees being led from trains with their heads shaven, eyes covered and hands bound.
The video, uploaded to social media and unverified, appeared as the United States is increasing its pressure on Beijing over what it says is the systematic oppression of Muslims.
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