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Official documents, leaked by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) have revealed how China «brainwashes» hundreds of Muslims, known as the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the BBC reports.
The British broadcaster, which had access to the leaked documents, stated that «15,000 people from southern Xinjiang were sent to the camps over the course of just one week in 2017», where they are «locked up, indoctrinated and punished».
The documents «undermine Beijing's claim that the detention camps, which have been built across Xinjiang in the past three years, are for voluntary re-education purposes to counter extremism», wrote the BBC, adding that «about a million people - mostly from the Muslim Uighur community - are thought to have been detained without trial».
The leaked documents included a set of strict instructions imposed on Muslims in the camps. «The instructions make it clear that the camps should be run as high security prisons, with strict discipline, punishments and no escapes», the same source explained.
