Aygul’s brother, who lives in Turkey, hasn’t been able to reach to her since February 2018. 30-year-old Aygul was a post-graduate student at Xinjiang Medical University before she went missing in May 2018. Her brother eventually learned from trusted sources that she had been taken to an internment camp among some other successful Uyghur students at her university. It is also possible that Aygul might have been detained because her brother lives abroad. According to her brother, Aygul was a very hard-working student and achieved a very high score at the university entrance exam.