Financial Times: In late 2019 the Chinese government announced they were closing the camps which had drawn so much condemnation. Shohrat Zakir, Xinjiang’s governor, said detainees had “graduated”.
But FT analysis suggests that the Chinese state’s campaign of oppression against Uyghurs and their culture and identity has in fact entered a new phase. While many camps have shut, a vast network of prisons and detention centres remains, alongside pervasive surveillance and systems of coercive social control…