{"id":14607,"date":"2020-02-18T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T02:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/china-detains-uighurs-for-growing-beards-or-visiting-foreign-websites-leak-reveals"},"modified":"2020-02-18T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T02:19:27","slug":"china-detains-uighurs-for-growing-beards-or-visiting-foreign-websites-leak-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14607","title":{"rendered":"China detains Uighurs for growing beards or visiting foreign websites, leak reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Database known as the \u2018Karakax list\u2019 shows people sent to internment camps for reasons such as \u2018minor religious infection\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Growing a beard, wearing a veil or accidentally visiting a foreign website were among the justifications for sending Uighurs to China\u2019s notorious detention camps, according to a leaked database, casting doubt on Beijing\u2019s claim to be conducting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/24\/china-says-preventive-work-in-xinjiang-detention-camps-should-be-applauded\">re-education campaign<\/a> to root out extremism.<\/p>\n<p>The newly revealed database \u2013 known as the \u201cKarakax list\u201d after the county where it was compiled \u2013 comprises 137 pages and exposes in detail the main reasons for the detention of more than 300 people on the edge of Xinjiang\u2019s Taklamakan desert.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/china-detains-uighurs-for-growing-beards-or-visiting-foreign-websites-leak-reveals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Database known as the \u2018Karakax list\u2019 shows people sent to internment camps for reasons such as \u2018minor religious infection\u2019Growing a beard, wearing a veil or accidentally visiting a foreign website were among the justifications for sending Uighurs to Ch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,371,67,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-religion","category-uighurs","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14608,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607\/revisions\/14608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}