Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized

“Beck creates a vivid panorama of chilling brutality mixed with Kafkaesque absurdism… . It’s a searing indictment of repression in Xinjiang.” – Publishers Weekly

“Illustrates the brutality of China’s repression through the experiences of four individuals … Beck’s book reads at times like a tale of suspense as he recounts poignant stories of suffering, resilience and survival. He has added to the body of literature documenting the effects of Mr. Xi’s dystopian vision and its consequences, not only for the Muslims of Xinjiang but also for the rest of the world.” – The Wall Street Journal

“John Beck’s Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized is not merely a book. It is a reckoning… The book gives voice to those who refused to remain silent… Their courage in speaking out, despite the regime’s relentless efforts to silence them, is humbling.” – The Telegraph

“A painful, necessary book.” – Booklist

“A tender, compassionate examination of how ordinary lives in Xinjiang are torn apart by the Chinese government’s ruthlessly efficient campaign to destroy the way of life of the region’s Uyghur and Kazakh people. Fast-paced and engaging.” – Yaroslav Trofimov, chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal

“In Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized, John Beck offers a powerful and heart-wrenching exploration of the hardships, brutalities, and injustices the Uyghur community has endured – and a crucial investigation into its resilience in the face of it all.” – Patrick Strickland, author of You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave

“A devastatingly powerful account of China’s brutal high-tech campaign to enchain its ethnic minorities in the name of ‘stability maintenance.’ Beck is not just a first-rate investigative journalist but a fine writer, one whose spare prose and gentle cadence haunts even as it informs. An exceptional work.” – Scott Anderson, author of Lawrence in Arabia

John Beck is an award-winning journalist focused on conflict and human rights issues, whose writing has appeared in GQ, Harper’s, Wired, Businessweek, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and The Sunday Times Magazine. He won the 2017 Kurt Schork Memorial Award as well as the 2019 Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism fellowship, and has been shortlisted for the Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents, Amnesty International Media Awards, among others. Based in New York, he is a Pulitzer Centre for Crisis Reporting grantee.

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