‘What has happened to me?’: manga depicting Uighur torture hits 2.5m views
Japanese artist’s story of Xinjiang woman’s experience highlights plight of Muslim minority in China
A manga depicting the plight of an Uighur woman who was detained and tortured in China has clocked up millions of views and spawning versions in several languages.
The popularity of “What has happened to me,” by the Japanese manga artist Tomomi Shimizu, coincides with rising global anger over China’s treatment of the Uighurs, a Muslim minority based in the country’s northwest border region of Xinjiang.