Leaked document shows how China tracked Uighur detainees and their families

- The last time she heard from her family was over three years ago, before China began rounding up Muslims in the country's far west. She lived abroad and knew nothing of her family's fate - until the contents of a leaked government document surfaced, describing their lives in chilling detail.

The document provides a rare, finely grained view of how the ruling Communist Party has carried out the system of detentions that has shredded the fibres of society in Xinjiang. In Memettohti's case, her sisters were flagged for praying regularly and participating in routine religious ceremonies.Reports on other leaked government documents last year by The New York Times and a group of outlets led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists showed the coercive nature of the crackdown and detailed the tight controls placed on detainees in the indoctrination camps.

Zenz said he was confident that the document was legitimate for a number of reasons. He said he had matched the identities of 337 listed detainees, relatives and neighbours with other government documents, spreadsheets and a leaked database from SenseNets, a Chinese surveillance company, that included GPS coordinates along with names, identification numbers, addresses and photos.

Authorities scrutinised three generations of each detainee's family, as well as their neighbours and friends. Officials in charge of monitoring mosques reported on how actively the residents participated in ceremonies, including the naming of children, circumcision, weddings and funerals. Officials categorised as"trustworthy" another man, the father of two detainees, who had cut off his beard and started drinking alcohol after a year of abstaining.

The document lists cases that begin in 2017, when the mass incarceration programme started in earnest under Chen, the party leader in Xinjiang. The latest listed entry is dated March 2019.

//authorities see as problematic that would be normal elsewhere, such as giving up alcohol, wanting to go on a religious pilgrimage or attending a funeral// That's insane! Authoritarian China must be held accountable for violating human rights! MagnitskyAct China_is_terrorist

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