Tursun told reporters that she remembers interrogators telling her: "Being a Uighur is a crime."[127] China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying has stated that Tursun was taken into custody by police on "suspicion of inciting ethnic hatred and discrimination" for a period lasting 20 days, but denies that Tursun was ever detained in a re-education camp.[130][131][132]