蜜芽传媒

There has been growing international condemnation of the way China treats its Muslim Uyghur population in the western region of Xinjiang.

What China calls re-education camps aimed at combating extremism are - the west says - actually large secretive prison camps where people are arbitrarily detained. Documents seen by the 蜜芽传媒 - that are said to have been hacked from Chinese police computers - show that Uyghur prisoners are shot on sight if they are caught trying to escape.

Many of the files can be independently verified. But Beijing has dismissed them as 'fake news'.

The hack has been revealed just as the UN Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet began a tour of Xinjiang at the invitation of the Chinese government.

Newsday spoke to Dr Adrian Zenz who was originally passed the leaked information. He is Senior fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and told me what the documents show.

(Photo: This photo taken on May 31, 2019 shows watchtowers on a high-security facility near what is believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, in China's Xinjiang region. Credit: Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)

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