By Leigh Hartman and Sara Gemeny Wilkinson

A Japanese artist used comic book storytelling to draw attention to the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Muslim ethnic minorities in western China.

Tomomi Shimizu, a manga comic–style artist, tells the story of Mihrigul Tursun, a young Uighur mother who was tortured and subjected to other brutal conditions in one of China’s detention camps in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.

To read the comic, please click on the image above. A new window will open. (Author: Tomomi Shimizu)