Today, we finished importing a list of 10294 Uyghur prisoners, the vast majority from Kashgar's Konasheher County, who were sentenced on dubious charges in 2017 or not long before.

Here's the full list: shahit.biz/export.php?lis…

What follows is a statistical summary. (1/12) The total official Uyghur population of Konasheher County is approximately 280000, which means that over 3.5% of everyone in the county has been given a prison term recently.

To note: the list almost certainly dates to late 2017 only, and sentencing in XJ spiked in 2018. (2/12)

Adding the Second Division Ulughkol Prison (第二师乌鲁克监狱) to our list of documented facilities: shahit.biz/eng/#facilitie…

This is another very new Bingtuan facility, with construction completed in 2018-2019. (1/5) Previously in Ulughkol Municipality, it relocated to the 3-prison cluster in Tiemenguan, together with the Cherchen+Miren Prisons. In a way, this cluster is a reflection of prison development in the last 10 yrs (from decentralized farms to high-tech centralized compounds). (2/5)

We launched our ID search tool today. Accessible via the little ID icon in the corner (or shahit.biz/eng/#idsearch), it lets you search a database of over 8M IDs (1.5M from XJ) for people you know.

Please share widely. This is probably the most useful tool we've developed. (1/10) The information is sourced from a mix of public/non-public documents and databases. There are up to 3 different types of results:

1) link to victim entry (if documented),
2) links to public sources,
3) a notice that we have non-public documents concerning this person. (2/10)

Adding the Badaowan Vocational Skills Training Center (八道湾职业技能培训中心) camp to our list of documented facilities: shahit.biz/facview.php?no…

This is/was the sole camp in Shuimogou's Badaowan Subdistrict. (1/8) Almost all of the information we have about this facility comes from internal police reports that were previously written about in The Intercept (theintercept.com/2021/01/29/chi…), and which aren't currently public (though we plan to translate/post slightly redacted versions). (2/8)

Adding the Urumqi No. 2 Pre-Trial Detention Center (乌鲁木齐市第二看守所) to our list of documented facilities: shahit.biz/facview.php?no…

More commonly known as the Xishan Pre-Trial Detention Center (西山看守所). (1/5) Like all of Urumqi's detention centers, this one goes back several decades. And, like all of Urumqi's detention centers, it's also seen a noticeable expansion in recent years, adding two new buildings for inmates in 2017-2018. (2/5)

After 6+ months of work/research, we have finally launched our village/township analytics interface: shahit.biz/eng/#village (also accessible through the Tools tab)

Basically, this is a sub-database of population and detention data for XJ's 15000+ villages/neighborhoods. (1/18) As a reference year, we chose 2018 as this was the heart of the incarceration campaign. However, since village population data isn't readily accessible, we needed to spend 1000s of hours doing busy legwork to find it, and it was usually not for 2018. (2/18)

The hypothesis of the camps being dismantled - starting in late 2018 (foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/18/det…) - is being more and more supported by testimony data. There are almost no reports of people being "camped" in 2019, and many/most w/ camped relatives now report them as released. (1/8) This does not mean that the crisis in Xinjiang is over, or even that there is improvement, but it does mean that the dialogue and focal points need to be adapted. I.e., "1.5-3 million in camps!" is likely wrong now. We propose 5 key victim types and actions to take. (2/8)