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Camps and Prisons

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Afghan Uyghurs Fear Deportation as Taliban Cozy Up to China [ Sep24, 2021 ]

Researcher finds Chinese govt role in Uyghur Internment camps in XUAR [ Sep19, 2021 ]

US’ Antony Blinken Meets China’s Uyghur Internment Camp Survivors [Sep5, 2021]

Uyghurs in Xinjiang are being given long prison sentences. Their families say they have done nothing wrong [ June25, 2021 ]

Grave concerns raised about ‘Uyghur genocide’ in China at UN rights council [ June23. 2021 ]

Uyghurs in Xinjiang are being given long prison sentences. Their families say they have done nothing wrong [ June25, 2021 ]

Grave concerns raised about ‘Uyghur genocide’ in China at UN rights council [ June23. 2021 ]

“Why Has China Targeted Minorities in Xinjiang? – With David Remnick” (April 16, 2021)

Decades of service to China’s government didn’t save my Uyghur dad from prison [April 16, 2021]

The Geography of Terror: A List of Camps Where Ethnic Kazakhs Are Detained (April 10, 2021)

Japan Is Finding It Harder to Stay Quiet on China’s Abuse of Uyghurs (April 1, 2021)

More Evidence About Camps and Prisons for Uyghurs in Xinjiang (March 24, 2021)

New York Post: “State Department responds to reported mass rapes in Chinese Uighur camps” (February 4, 2021)

Foreign Policy: “ CHINA BRIEF: Xinjiang’s Camps Enable Systemic Sexual Violence – A new report draws attention to rape and other abuses of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s large-scale internment camps.” (FEBRUARY 3, 2021)

Democracy Now: “Mass Rapes. Sweeping Surveillance. Forced Labor. – Exposing China’s Crackdown on Uyghur Muslims” (February 04, 2021)

The Sunday Times (UK): “Uighur women in Chinese camps victims of ‘systematic abuse’” (February 3, 2021)

ABC News (Australia): “Uyghur advocates speak out after horrifying accounts of rape and torture in Xinjiang camps in China” (Fevruary 3, 2021)

The Intercept: “INSIDE CHINA’S POLICE STATE TACTICS AGAINST MUSLIMS: A new report from The Intercept provides a raw glimpse into the persecution and sweeping internment of Muslims in northwest China’s Xinjiang region.” (February 3, 2021)

BBC News: “’Their goal is to destroy everyone’: Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape” (February 2, 2021)

Radio Free Asia: “Prominent Uyghur Poet and Author Confirmed to Have Died While Imprisoned: Reports of the death come as details emerge on the sentence length of another detained poet.” (January 25, 2021)

RFA: “Book by Uyghur Retiree Details Two Grim Years in Xinjiang Internment Camp: ‘Survivor of the Chinese Gulag’ describes Gulbahar Haitiwaji’s ordeal during a trip to Xinjiang from her home in France.” (January 15, 2021)

Guardian: “’Our souls are dead’: how I survived a Chinese ‘re-education’ camp for Uighurs” (January 12, 2021)

Economist: “Dismantling China’s Muslim gulag in Xinjiang is not enough: The Communist Party must undo decades of sowing ethnic division” (January 9, 2021)

Sup China: “‘Only when you, your children, and your grandchildren become Chinese’: Life after Xinjiang detainment” (January 6, 2021)

Living Otherwise: “The Elephant in the XUAR: II. Brand new prisons, expanding old prisons, & hundreds of thousands of new inmates.” (January 4, 2021 written by Gene A. Bunin)

Kyodo News: “Japan gave intel on China’s crackdown on Uyghurs to U.S., Britain” (December 28, 2020)

Buzzfed News: “THE FACTORIES IN THE CAMPS: Observers have long warned of rising forced labor in Xinjiang. Satellite images show factories built just steps away from cell blocks.” (December 28, 2020)

National Interest: “Why Joe Biden Should Boycott China’s 2022 Winter Olympics: Beijing needs to empty its camps in Xinjiang, or America will work to empty its stadiums.” (December 28, 2020)

Financial Times: “Xinjiang campaigner says China pressure led him to flee Kazakhstan: Serikzhan Bilash has been documenting Beijing’s crackdown on ethnic minorities” (December 26, 2020)

Bitter Winter: “The Police Region of Xinjiang: Checkpoints, Camps, and Fear: Police officers from inland China, who worked in Xinjiang, disclose details of control measures employed by the CCP to suppress Uyghur Muslims.” (May 9, 2020)

Bitter Winder: “To Live in Xinjiang Is Just Like Being Jailed” (April 28, 2019)

AP News: “AP Interview: China signals shift but no let-up in Xinjiang” (December 21, 2020)

CNN: “Watched, judged, detained: Leaked Chinese government records reveal detailed surveillance reports on Uyghur families and Beijing’s justification for mass detentions”

French youth rise up against exploitation of Uighurs” (December 21, 2020)

Radio Free Asia: “Xinjiang Authorities Sentence Uyghur Septuagenarian Former Official to Lengthy Jail Term” (December 18, 2020)

The Spectactor: “The useful idiots of TikTok: American teens are denying the existence of Uighur labor camps from their bedrooms” (December 18, 2020)

Radio Free Asia: “Young Uyghur Man Who Went Missing After Warned of Detention Confirmed Dead by Suicide” (December 18, 2020)

EU Reporter: “European Parliament calls on China to end forced labour schemes and incarcerations of ethnic minorities” (December 17, 2020)

Los Angeles Times: “‘Will they let us live?’ Inside Xinjiang, survivors of China’s internment camps speak” (December 17, 2020)

France 24: “US Muslims press Organization of Islamic Cooperation on China” (December 17, 2020)

Middle East Eye: “Coalition of groups criticise OIC for failing to condemn China’s persecution of Uighurs” (December 17, 2020)

Rights and advocacy groups call on Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to demand accountability and transparency from Beijing
DW News: “Muslim ex-internee tells harrowing story of life in China” (December 15, 2020)

The Guardian: “The Guardian view on China’s treatment of the Uighurs: from unthinkable to irrefutable” (December 13, 2020)

Art of Life in Chinese Central Asia blog: “The Elephant in the XUAR: I. Entire families sentenced” (December 9, 2020)

The Guardian: “’Being young’ leads to detention in China’s Xinjiang region” (December 8, 2020)

The Muslim Vibe: “Uyghur Muslims Forced to Eat Pork Every Friday in Chinese Concentration Camps” (December 7, 2020)

International Policy Digest: “End the Camps Now!” (November 19, 2020)

Mapping Chinese Detention Centers

INSIDE A XINJIANG DETENTION CAMP

BBC News: “Xinjiang: Large numbers of new detention camps uncovered in report” (September 24, 2020)

The Guardian: “China has built 380 internment camps in Xinjiang, study finds” (September 23, 2020)

The Xinjiang Data Project: “Exploring Xinjiang’s detention system” (September 2020)

Tearline Project: “Geolocating Growth of Suspect “Boarding” Facilities in Xinjiang China” (Updated July 8, 2020)

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI): “‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang” (March 1, 2020)

VICE News: “How China Targets Muslims for ‘Re-Education’ Camps — and Spies on Their Families” (Feb 17, 2020)

Adrian Zenz: “The Karakax List: Dissecting the Anatomy of Beijing’s Internment Drive in Xinjiang” Journal of Political Risk, Vol. 8, No. 2, February 2020

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ): “How the world learned of China’s mass internment camps” (December 12, 2019)

VICE News: “Former Detainees Describe Daily Routine Inside China’s ‘Re-education Camps’ (Part 1)” (Nov 25, 2019)

BBC News: “China’s secret ‘brainwashing’ camps” (Nov 25, 2019)

Business Insider: “Maps show 500 suspected ‘re-education’ camps and prisons where China is locking up and torturing its Muslim minority” (Nov 25, 2019)

Radio Free Asia: “Expert Says 1.8 Million Uyghurs, Muslim Minorities Held in Xinjiang’s Internment Camps” (11/24/2019)

Adrian Zenz: “Wash Brains, Cleanse Hearts”: Evidence from Chinese Government Documents about the Nature and Extent of Xinjiang’s Extrajudicial Internment Campaign” Journal of Political Risk, Vol. 7, No. 11, November 2019

Adrian Zenz: “Wash Brains, Cleanse Hearts”: Evidence from Chinese Government Documents about the Nature and Extent of Xinjiang’s Extrajudicial Internment Campaign” Journal of Political Risk, Vol. 7, No. 11, November 2019

BBC News: “Inside China’s ‘thought transformation’ camps” (Jun 18, 2019)

Vox: “China’s secret internment camps” (May 7, 2019)

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI): “Mapping Xinjiang’s ‘re-education’ camps” (Nov 1, 2018)

BBC Documentary: “China’s hidden camps – What’s happened to the vanished Uighurs of Xinjiang?” (October 24, 2018)

The Atlantic: “Internet Sleuths Are Hunting for China’s Secret Internment Camps for Muslims” (September 15, 2018)

Adrian Zenz: “‘Thoroughly reforming them towards a healthy heart attitude’: China’s political re-education campaign in Xinjiang” Central Asian Survey, Volume 38, 2019 – Issue 1 (Published online: Sep 5, 2018)

Wall Street Journal: “Life Inside China’s ‘Re-Education’ Camps” (Aug 20, 2018)

Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP): “The Mass Internment of Uyghurs: ‘We want to be respected as humans. Is it too much to ask?’” (August 2018)

Adrian Zenz: “New Evidence for China’s Political Re-Education Campaign in Xinjiang” China Brief Volume: 18 Issue: 10, (May 15, 2018)

Xinjiang Victims Database

Uyghur Transitional Justice Database

The Uyghur Pulse Project – Video testimonies for the victims of the slow but de facto genocide in East Turkestan