Nearly Half of Xinjiang Village’s Residents Sent to ‘Political Re-Education Camps’: Official

June 14, 2018

Radio Free Asia Shohret Hoshur; Joshua Lipes

Authorities in Qaraqash (in Chinese, Moyu) county, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), have detained nearly half of the population of a village in “political re-education camps,” according to a local official.

A duty officer with the Chinibagh township police station in Qaraqash recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service that in his home village of Yengisheher, almost all of the adult males from the area’s more than 1,700 households had been placed in camps, leaving few people behind to farm the local fields.