The former detective described the extreme abuse Uyghurs were subjected to in order to elicit confessions as China rounded up about two million people in a social cleansing programme
The officer, identified only by the surname Jiang, said he worked in one of the hundred internment camps dotted around far-western China
He said that initially he felt the patriotic pull to join 150,000 police recruits to staff detention centres in Xinjiang.
🔴He was quickly disillusioned by abuse carried out against detainees as young as 14
Jiang said every new detainee was beaten during their initial interrogation to extract a "confession"
"If you want people to confess, you use the electric baton with two sharp tips on top," he also said in the interview
Other common tactics, he said, included forcing prisoners to gang rape male detainees
Jiang told CNN some of his colleagues saw their work as another job in police work or public security but others were "just psychopaths"
An estimated two million Muslim Uyghurs have been sent to internment camps in Xinjiang since 2017 as part of China's "Strike Hard Campaign".
Read more on China's brutal crackdown on Uyghur Muslims here ⬇️
🔴UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged "all parties" to "make every effort" to extend the agreement on Ukrainian grain exports, including facilitating shipments of Russian grain
🔴The Dutch military intelligence service has warned companies that Moscow is trying to obtain high-tech assets for its war in Ukraine through front companies, local media has reported
🔴 Ukrainians will freeze to death this winter if the West does not urgently send blankets and generators to keep them warm, Vitali Klitschko has said
The 51-year-old mayor of Kyiv, and former heavyweight boxing champion of the world, told The Telegraph's @Barnes_Joe that increasing Russian attacks on power plants have left his country on the brink of a fresh humanitarian crisis
🔴America is to bring forward the delivery of dozens of highly accurate guided tactical nuclear weapons to Europe amid escalating tensions with Moscow
➡️In what was seen as a move to reassure Nato allies amid Russian nuclear-sabre-rattling, the replacement process will begin in December, having previously been expected next spring
Before the war, when “Maugly” came across a rival football team supporter, it would usually end in a brawl.
Muscular, tattooed and with a shaved head, he looks every inch the football hooligan - and he admits he has acted like it too telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
He is part of Hoods Hoods Klan, an anti-fascist, anti-racist ultra group that supported the now-bankrupt Arsenal Kyiv and engaged in violence with rival football factions known for including neo-Nazis.
But all that has changed. Now they are more concerned with Russia’s violence