Three responses were offered: “Personal transcription,” “Meeting or group collaboration,” and “Other.” It read: “Hey Phelim, to help us improve your Otter’s experience, what was the purpose of this particular recording with titled ‘Mustafa Aksu’ created at ‘ 11:02:41’?” The next day, I received an odd note from Otter.ai, the automated transcription app that I had used to record the interview. So when I talked to Aksu in November, I made sure to use Signal, an encrypted phone app, to protect our discussion about psychological trauma afflicting Uyghurs overseas. When four family members died in succession in recent years, a heartbroken Aksu refrained from calling home to ask about the circumstances of their deaths to shield relatives from potentially dangerous state scrutiny for having overseas ties. The Chinese government’s pervasive surveillance of Xinjiang’s Muslim Uyghur population makes any contact Uyghurs have with friends and relatives overseas a potential red-flag for police scrutiny.
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