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Exposed: China's Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm

ICIJ's report of 24 November 2019 on leaked Chinese government documents it calls the China Cables.

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China Cables
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include a classified list of guidelines, personally approved by the region’s top security chief, that effectively serves as a manual for operating the camps1

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  1. Nov 2019 Government of the People's Republic of China disputes a finding of Exposed: China's Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm According to Government of the People's Republic of China
  2. 24 Nov 2019 Exposed: China's Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm
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  1. Exposed: China's Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, 24 Nov 2019. Scholarship & press
    include a classified list of guidelines, personally approved by the region’s top security chief, that effectively serves as a manual for operating the camps
    First, there are no so-called ‘detention camps’ in Xinjiang. Vocational education and training centres have been established for the prevention of terrorism.
    the Chinese government called the leaked documents “pure fabrication and fake news.”
    A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang
    The manual was approved by Zhu Hailun , then deputy secretary of Xinjiang’s Communist Party and the region’s top security official.
    called the Chinese-language documents “very authentic,” adding that they “adhere 100% to all of the classified document templates that I’ve ever seen.”
  2. OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), 31 Aug 2022. Primary record
    For a number of these documents, OHCHR was able to take steps to verify their authenticity, resulting in assessment that they are highly likely to be authentic and therefore could be credibly relied upon in support of other information. For others, such verification was not possible
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