Chris Pleasance reports:
Thousands of photographs, spreadsheets and classified documents hacked from Chinese police servers have shed a horrifying new light on the terrors Uyghur Muslims have been subjected to in ‘re-education camps’ and prisons in Xinjiang, as part of a state-sponsored campaign aimed at ‘breaking’ their cultural identity.
The treasure trove of data lays bare how more than 20,000 Uyghurs from just one county – Shufu – were imprisoned or interred in camps between 2017 and 2018 on spurious charges such as growing a beard or failing to top their phone up with credit, under the watchful eye of guards who were ordered to shoot escapees on sight.
Read more at DailyMail.
Related: The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps (BBC)