“There aren’t any sort of rehabilitative features in these higher-security detention centers. The findings support recent reporting from BuzzFeed News that China has built massive new high-security prison camps to create a vast and permanent infrastructure for mass detention. Conversely, when they visited several compounds that previously held local Uighurs, authorities didn’t bother much with trying to obstruct the reporters. When the scale of the human rights abuses in Xinjiang came to light in 2017 and 2018, China categorically denied their existence. Around Kashgar, Uighurs were palpably afraid to talk to foreign visitors, waving away reporters before they could ask questions.

Source: Washington Post September 24, 2020 02:11 UTC