Exiled into mass camps: Documents reveal how it treats Muslims in China

Several classified documents, released in public, show how China controls the lives of about three million people exiled to mass detention camps in the Xijiang region.

The documents were provided by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and published by 17 media worldwide.

The Chinese government has repeatedly confirmed that camps in Ksinjiang ʹ region inhabited by majority Muslim waters offer voluntary education and skill.

The government insists it thus keeps Muslims from extremism.

But published official documents show how prisoners are abused and punished.

According to them, authorities determine everything from cutting hair to opening and when doors are closed in camps.

The documents require increased discipline and punishment for violations of behavioral codes, while learning Mandarin becomes the top priority.

It also says that 15,000 people from Ksinjiang were sent to camps in just one week in 2017.

Sophie Richardson, director for China in the Human Rights Watch human rights organisation, said the outgoing memorandums should be exploited by prosecutors.

China rejected them, calling them “pure variations and false news”. / REL/