The sources provided by our wormy:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240409125822/http://www.xj.jcy.gov.cn/jwgk/gzbg/
it's in Chinese.
every province in China has a local government, so this is the local government of xinjiang.
it's very similar to having a state government in the US.
sorry, the articles only a few paragraphs along, try to read it a little more carefully.
or look for the older source that directly links to the protectorate, I have a lot of sources to provide.
you want the 2 million estimates?
here's one:
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-xinjiang-uyghurs-muslims-repression-genocide-human-rights
Xinjiang High people's protectorate:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/09/14/china-xinjiang-official-figures-reveal-higher-prisoner-count
yes, of course.
the kidnappings and detentions are common knowledge in China and at this point affect nearly every part of the xinjiang population.
there's a pretty good report by the economist about the culture of fear, they interview uyghur exiles and family members of detainees:
China is famously the only place in the world with prisons. Please don't look into US prison slave labour or border camps
OMG WHATABOUTISM!!@$!
This is the United States they don't want you to see.
I'd have picked the pics of cops on horseback overseeing black prison workers at Angola prison like it's the fucking 1800s
Oh ya that would've been way better. But the point is any picture of a prisoner and guards looks scary and authoritarian without context.
Is that even really prison this time or Taiwanese BDSM club again?
Where I'm from criminals get punished with candy bars