Sayragul Sauytbay

Sayragul Sauytbay (Kazakh: Сайрагүл Сауытбай, romanized: Sayragül Sawıtbay; born 1977) is a Kazakh doctor, headteacher and whistleblower from China. In 2018, she fled China and then told the media about the Xinjiang internment camps resembling modern-day concentration camps where people are "re-educated" in China. She became one of the first victims of these camps in the world to speak publicly about the Chinese repressive campaign against Muslims, igniting a movement against these abuses. Sweden offered her political asylum after Kazakhstan refused, and she subsequently emigrated there.

In March of 2020, she received the International Women of Courage Award from the United States Department of State. In March 2021 she was awarded the Internationaler Nürnberger Menschenrechtspreis (the International Human Rights prize of the city of Nuremberg, Germany), for 2021; the prize ceremony was held 15 May 2022.

Also in 2021, she testified among other survivors, as a witness at the Uyghur Tribunal in London.

On 11 November 2023 she was elected as the Vice President of the East Turkistan Government in Exile at the 9th East Turkistan General Assembly in Washington, DC.