On the night of 31 August 2022, minutes before Michelle Bachelet's term as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ran out, her office published its assessment of human rights in Xinjiang. It had been delayed for close to a year. Beijing lobbied hard to stop it. When it finally…
Beijing's word for them was "vocational skills education and training centres". The people inside were students, the official line went. They studied…
Kashgar's farmland is cotton country. Xinjiang grows more than a fifth of the world's cotton, and the southern oases around Kashgar, Aksu and Hotan…
In 2018 a walk across central Kashgar meant a police post every hundred metres or so. They were called convenience police stations, and Xinjiang…
In December 2019 Xinjiang's regional chairman told a press conference in Beijing that everyone in the camps had graduated. Some of them had. Many…
Twice a day at the East Gate of Kashgar's Old City, actors in costume stage an opening ceremony. There's narration about the Silk Road, a Han envoy…
