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The institute said in a document circulated in international newspapers that the number of installations is about 40 percent higher than previous estimates, and is increasing despite China’s claims that many Uighurs have been released.
According to satellite images, eyewitnesses, media reports and official bidding documents for the building, the institute said that “at least 61 detention sites witnessed new construction and expansion work between July 2019 and July 2020. “.
A satellite image included in the January ASPI report shows an entirely new facility near Kashgar.
Remember that previous satellite images showed that the site was previously a wasteland.
Half of the new facilities are high-security facilities, which report author Nathan Rosser believes could be moved into prison-style facilities.
In a press release, Rosser said: “The results of this investigation contradict claims by Chinese officials that all” trainees “from so-called vocational training centers” graduated “by the end of 2019.
Instead, Rosser adds, the available evidence indicates that many of those detained are extrajudicial, in what is known as the vast network of ‘re-education’ in Xinjiang, where they are formally charged and then locked up in higher security facilities, including jails built. Newly or expanded, or sent to factory complexes surrounded by walls to be assigned to forced labor.
China still faces widespread condemnation of the camps, which have become the center of media attention in recent months.
Psychological and physical torture is rampant in these facilities, as residents are forced to learn Mandarin, criticize, and abandon their beliefs.
Meanwhile, Beijing emphasizes that the camps are intended for “vocational training” purposes, primarily to address poverty in the formerly autonomous region.
China’s control over the region has tightened over the past two decades, and in recent years it has reached new heights under President Xi Jinping.
Uyghur Merahmit Applet told Yahoo News Australia earlier this year that recent incidents of terrorism, including the Kunming massacre in 2014 in which 31 civilians were killed in a knife attack at a train station in southwest China, had led to further action. In Xinjiang after ties to separatists.
