When Uyghur activist Rushan Abbas speaks on a public panel about the atrocities committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), her sister, Dr. Gulshan Abbas, suddenly goes missing. Through interviews with academic experts, former camp survivors, multiple Uyghurs in the diaspora, and Abbas’s personal narrative, “In Search of my Sister” exposes the scope of the Uyghur genocide, the global influence of the CCP, and the propaganda tactics used by the CCP to conceal its crimes. The film follows Abbas on her relentless quest to discover if her sister has become one of the millions of Uyghurs who have disappeared into concentration camps.
Rushan Abbas started her activism work while she was a student, participating in the pro-democracy demonstrations at Xinjiang University in 1985 and 1988. Since her arrival in the U.S. in 1989, Ms. Abbas has been an ardent campaigner for the human rights of the Uyghur people.
In English with Czech subtitles, 80 minutes.
