A doctor of Uigher origin who fled China has given a harrowing testimony of her own participation in the communist state’s brutal repression of ethnic minorities, in particular its Uighur Muslims.

Speaking to ITV News, she says that for much of her career she worked for the Chinese government as part of what she describes as its population control plan to curtail the growth of the Uighur population.

She speaks of participating in at least 500 to 600 operations on Uighur women including forced contraception, forced abortion, forced sterilisation and forced removal of wombs.

Speaking on camera to ITV News Correspondent, Emma Murphy, she said that on at least one occasion a baby was still moving when it was discarded into the rubbish.