Xinjiang Police Files' show systemic abuse of Uyghurs in China

'Xinjiang Police Files' show systemic abuse of Uyghurs in China

DW News

May 24, 2022

More evidence emerged of China's brutal crackdown on its predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority. A cache of documents dubbed "The Xinjiang Police Files" was leaked to international media, including photographs inside Xinjiang's mass incarceration facilities. It's a rare look behind the walls of a so-called re-education camp in the northwestern Chinese province. The photos show police using physical force against prisoners in handcuffs and chains. The leak was published by a consortium of investigative journalists, including from the BBC and Germany's Der Spiegel and ARD. The publication coincides with the arrival in China of the UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet.