China’s Xinjiang Tour Should Have Fooled No One

Expand Officials unveil a new political education camp in Bayingolin, Xinjiang. © Yuli County, Xinjiang China’s authorities recently escorted diplomats from a dozen countries and a handful of foreign journalists on a highly controlled visit to Xinjiang, the northwestern region where an estimated one million Turkic Muslims are being arbitrarily and indefinitely detained. Human Rights Watch has documented forced political indoctrination and ill-treatment in these “political education” camps, and tight surveillance and control over the everyday life of Xinjiang’s 13 million Turkic Muslim residents,…

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