{"id":23044,"date":"2020-09-24T16:20:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T07:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/sep\/24\/timelapse-footage-shows-development-of-suspected-internment-camp-in-xinjiang-uighur-muslims-china-video"},"modified":"2020-09-24T16:20:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T07:20:07","slug":"timelapse-footage-shows-development-of-suspected-internment-camp-in-xinjiang-china-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23044","title":{"rendered":"Timelapse footage shows development of suspected internment camp in Xinjiang, China \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has built nearly 400 internment camps in Xinjiang region, with construction on dozens continuing over the last two years, even as Chinese authorities said their \u201cre-education\u201d system was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-xinjiang\/china-says-most-people-in-xinjiang-camps-have-returned-to-society-idUSKCN1UP15F\">winding down<\/a>, an Australian thinktank has found.<\/p>\n<p>The network of camps in China\u2019s far west, used to detain Uighurs and people from other Muslim minorities, include 14 that are still under construction, according to the latest satellite imaging obtained by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspi.org.au\/\">Australian Strategic Policy Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most information about the camps, and a wider government campaign against Muslim minorities in the region, has come from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/04\/muslim-minority-teacher-50-tells-of-forced-sterilisation-in-xinjiang-china\">survivors who have fled<\/a>&nbsp;abroad,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/24\/china-cables-leak-no-escapes-reality-china-uighur-prison-camp\">leaked Chinese government documents,&nbsp;<\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/alison_killing\/satellite-images-investigation-xinjiang-detention-camps\">satellite images<\/a>&nbsp;that have confirmed the location and existence of camps.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/24\/china-has-built-380-internment-camps-in-xinjiang-study-finds\">Full report: China has built 380 internment camps in Xinjiang, study finds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/jul\/24\/why-more-than-1-million-uighurs-are-being-held-in-camps-in-china-video-explainer\">Why more than 1 million Uighurs are being held in camps in China \u2013 video explainer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/sep\/24\/timelapse-footage-shows-development-of-suspected-internment-camp-in-xinjiang-uighur-muslims-china-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has built nearly 400 internment camps in Xinjiang region, with construction on dozens continuing over the last two years, even as Chinese authorities said their \u201cre-education\u201d system was&nbsp;winding down, an Australian thinktank has found.The ne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23044","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23045,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23044\/revisions\/23045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}