Uyghur county in China has highest prison rate in the world

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Huge numbers of Uyghurs remain in prison in China, even after the government shuttered many internment camps under international pressure. Leaked data shows a heavily Uyghur county in China has the world’s highest imprisonment rate.

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A list obtained and partially verified by the AP cites the names of more than 10,000 Uyghurs sent to prison in just Konasheher county alone, one of dozens in southern Xinjiang. In recent years, China has waged a brutal crackdown on the Uyghurs, a largely Muslim minority, which it has described as a war on terror.

“Never did I think he would be arrested,” said Musa, who now lives in exile in Norway. “If you saw him, you would feel the same way. He is so earnest.” Those swept up came from all walks of life, and included men, women, young people and the elderly. They had only one thing in common: They were all Uyghurs.

The list was passed to The AP by Abduweli Ayup, an exiled Uyghur linguist in Norway. The AP authenticated it through interviews with eight Uyghurs who recognized 194 people on the list, as well as legal notices, recordings of phone calls with Chinese officials and checks of address, birthdays and identity numbers.

Darren Byler, an expert on Xinjiang’s mass incarceration system, said most arrests were arbitrary and outside the law, with people detained for having relatives abroad or downloading certain cell phone applications. He has documented arrest quotas for local police, in some cases resulting in the men from entire villages being rounded up and whole families uprooted from their homes.

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Show us the actual report. Otherwise it's just another Iraq WMD, just like NYT. NYT: we were wrong on Iraq WMD - misled (ie lied) - insufficient qualified - never independently verified - encouraged to report the claims by US officials (ie act as Govt echo chamber)

Propaganda machine strikes again!

NATO traditional method is to support some 'moderate and free Muslims' to attack pagan civilians, usually the local government security police will suppress these terrorists, and then USA will create evidence of genocide, Yugoslavia, Syria, Xinjiang ... and then carry out bombing

“It is really remarkable,” Byler said. “In no other location have we seen entire populations of people be described as terrorists or seen as terrorists. .... The state is trying to reframe the narrative and say, you know, all of these people are actually criminals.”...

China is a prison and the US is a country that is dying to copy the model.

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