Coda Story, written by Frankie Vetch, Photographed by Lily Vetch
Project Info
Rahima Mahmut is one of the few Uyghur translators willing to work in the open. Her commitment to enabling journalists to cover the Uyghurs exposes her family back home in China to enormous risks, where a vivid picture has emerged of systematic torture and sexual violence, forced sterilization, “reeducation,” and child-parent separation.
Journalists rely on a short supply of Uyghur interpreters to investigate the human rights crisis in northwest China. The CCP is intent on muzzling them
Disciplines
Matthew Neddham: The Anthropologist
Short documentary
Tia Jonsson for i-D Magazine
Photography Commission