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'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's war on Islam
Beijing has aggressively defended its policies and sought to portray the camps as benign and Xinjiang as peaceful thanks to government efforts. A starkly different reality emerges in Lop county, where Guardian interviews and analysis of public documents reveal new details about the government’s continuing campaign in one of the worst-affected areas of Xinjiang.
Uyghur woman details life inside Chinese 're-education camp' in Xinjiang
A Uyghur woman has detailed conditions she says were tantamount to torture inside one of China's "re-education camps" in far western Xinjiang province. Gulbahar Jelilova, who says she spent 15 months inside one of the camps, has given a rare firsthand account of the conditions.
Where Did the One Million Figure for Detentions in Xinjiang’s Camps Come From?
Given the Chinese government has not released its own official numbers, and given the extreme obstacles that prevent independent on-the-ground accounting of camp inmates, how do outside observers arrive at the one million estimate?