All Reading
This section contains a curated list of useful articles, investigations, books and other reading materials. The list is updated on a weekly basis and suggestions for additions are welcome.
Starting Points:
The Uyghur Tribunal Delivers Its Judgment
The Uyghur Tribunal, having reviewed evidenced since September 2020, reaches a judgment on whether international crimes are proved to have been committed by the PRC.
One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps
This account by a Uyghur and his family who escaped from Xinjiang’s persecution shares with the world his experience of the calamity engulfing his homeland.
“Like We Were Enemies In a War” - China’s Mass Persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang
This report, based on first-hand testimonies and satellite imagery data analysis, gives an extensive account of life inside the internment camps.
“Break Their Lineage, Break Their Roots” - China’s Crimes against Humanity
This report outlines the evidence for the conclusion that the Chinese government has committed crimes against humanity against the Turkic Muslim population.
Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang
As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself.
‘Will they let us live?’ Inside Xinjiang, survivors of China’s internment camps speak
On a visit to Xinjiang, reporters met with Uighurs across the region who spoke of their imprisonment, fear and life in the region.
Documenting Xinjiang’s Detention System
This database of nearly 400 suspected detention facilities in Xinjiang highlights ‘re-education’ camps, detention centres and prisons that have been newly built or expanded since 2017.
What They Saw: Ex-Prisoners Detail The Horrors Of China's Detention Camps
BuzzFeed News interviewed 28 former detainees from the camps in Xinjiang about their experiences, who wanted to make the world aware of how they were treated.
China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims
Using satellite images and interviews with former detainees, this investigation of China’s internment camp system identified more than 260 structures built since 2017.
Uyghurs for Sale: ‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang
This report reveals how the forced transfers of Uyghurs to factories across China are linked to the supply chains of dozens of international brands.
Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm
A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region’s Orwellian system of mass surveillance and “predictive policing.”
‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims
More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.
“Eradicating Ideological Viruses” - China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims
This report presents new evidence of the Chinese government’s mass arbitrary detention, torture, and mistreatment of Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. Systemic and increasingly pervasive controls on daily life there dramatically scaled up when Chen Quanguo became Xinjiang’s Party Secretary in late 2016.