- China's Xinjiang region is home to 1.5% of the country's population, but accounted for one in five arrests in 2017.
- This didn't include the hundreds of thousands of people, possibly as many as 1 million, who are being held in extrajudicial political "re-education camps" designed to indoctrinate ethnic minorities and force them to reject their religious beliefs.
- Xinjiang residents and, in particular ethnic Uyghurs, are banned from many religious acts and are monitored by authorities living in their homes, as well as surveillance apps, voice printing, and facial recognition cameras. Residents are also banned from entering certain stores and must swipe their ID cards first, which describes them as "safe," "normal," or "unsafe."
- Authorities use the fear of family being put in re-education camps to control and silence Xinjiang residents and students while abroad, and many are detained as soon as they return.
- Some experts fear the camps, which have received little global attention, could soon become the site of mass murders.
The vast Xinjiang region in northwestern China is home to just 1.5% of the country's entire 1.3 billion residents. But in 2017, one in five arrests in China occurred there.
In total, out of Xinjiang's 22 million residents, 227,000 people were arrested — a 731% increase from 2016, according to data released last week from the advocacy group Chinese Human Rights Defenders.
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