Leaked documents reveal brainwashing in China’s prison camps

Documents challenge Beijing’s claims that the camps provide voluntary education

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A camp in China
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Leaked documents have exposed the systematic brainwashing of Muslims in China’s network of high-security prison camps.

The Guardian says the papers reveal the “largest mass incarceration of an ethnic-religious minority since the second world war” and show China is running detention camps that are secret, involuntary and used for ideological “education transformation”.

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