Database known as the ‘Karakax list’ shows people sent to internment camps for reasons such as ‘minor religious infection’
Growing a beard, wearing a veil or accidentally visiting a foreign website were among the justifications for sending Uighurs to China’s notorious detention camps, according to a leaked database, casting doubt on Beijing’s claim to be conducting a re-education campaign to root out extremism.
The newly revealed database – known as the “Karakax list” after the county where it was compiled – comprises 137 pages and exposes in detail the main reasons for the detention of more than 300 people on the edge of Xinjiang’s Taklamakan desert.
