• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
  • HOME
  • ABOUT CHINA
    • NEWS
    • TESTIMONIES
    • OP-EDS
    • FEATURED
    • GLOSSARY
    • CHINA PERSECUTION MAP
  • FROM THE WORLD
    • NEWS
    • OP-EDS
    • FEATURED
    • TESTIMONIES
  • INTERVIEWS
  • DOCUMENTS AND TRANSLATIONS
    • DOCUMENTS
    • THE TAI JI MEN CASE
    • TRANSLATIONS
  • EVENTS
  • ABOUT
  • EDITORIAL BOARD
  • TOPICS

Bitter Winter

A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

three friends of winter
Home / China / News China

Another Camp for Uyghurs Exposed in Xinjiang

10/01/2018Li Zaili |

Lop County No. 4 Vocational Skills Education and Training Center
The fence of the Lop County No. 4 Vocational Skills Education and Training Center has been covered, and a check point set up at the entrance

 

Over 2,000 Uyghur men are detained in a “transformation through education” camp in Lop county of Xinjiang’s Hotan prefecture.

Bitter Winter has accessed new information that No. 4 Vocational Skills Education and Training Center in Lop county has been repurposed for a “transformation through education” camp for Uyghurs. More than 2,000 men, 20- to 76-years-old, are held there. Some of them are detained for growing long beards or having had contacts with foreign countries, while others were sent to the camp after having served sentences in prison.

Each day, the detainees spend eight hours studying Mandarin and Chinese laws, four hours for each topic. After dinner, two hours or more are spent on watching propaganda films extolling the Communist Party or learning to write Chinese characters.

According to an inside source, the camp employs 150 staff, 15 detainees for each employee. Every day, the staff score the performance of each detainee based on their general attitude and achievements in studying. If a “student” performs poorly, disobeys orders, or exhibits negative emotions, he is punished by being sent to solitary confinement for 24 hours with his hands cuffed to iron grills on windows, the tips of feet barely touching the floor.

The detained have no freedom whatsoever; their every move is monitored by surveillance cameras. The use of washrooms is limited to three minutes and is accompanied by an auxiliary officer or a member of the staff. The men held in the camp are only allowed to go outside within the enclosed area twice or thrice per week, with a maximum duration of 15 minutes each time.

Bitter Winter reported on September 29 that the Lop county authorities had opened special facilities for the children of families with both parents kept in “transformation through education” camps.

Reported by Li Zaili

 

Through part of the outer wall not surrounded by blue sheets of galvanized iron
A glimpse through the fence of the “transformation through education” camp

 

The outer wall is covered with blue steel plates. The top of the wall has been fitted with spiral-shaped barbed wire.
The fence surrounding the camp has been fitted with barbed wire and covered with blue steel shee

Tagged With: Islam in China, Muslim Uyghurs, Re-Education Camps

Li Zaili Profile picture
Li Zaili

Uses a pseudonym for security reasons.

Related articles

  • Innocents Abroad: The World Muslim Communities Council Hails Xinjiang as a Religious Liberty Paradise

    Innocents Abroad: The World Muslim Communities Council Hails Xinjiang as a Religious Liberty Paradise

  • The Urumqi Fire Was State Terror: The European Parliament Got It Right

    The Urumqi Fire Was State Terror: The European Parliament Got It Right

  • Zhanargul Zhumatai: A Dramatic Interview with an Ethnic Kazakh Camp Survivor Who May Soon “Disappear”

    Zhanargul Zhumatai: A Dramatic Interview with an Ethnic Kazakh Camp Survivor Who May Soon “Disappear”

  • Thailand Mistreats Refugees from China

    Thailand Mistreats Refugees from China

Keep Reading

  • UK: China Accused of a Wide Range of Abuses in the House of Lords
    UK: China Accused of a Wide Range of Abuses in the House of Lords

    China’s human rights record comes under the spotlight again as peers debate the atrocities.

  • A Uyghur Poet Reminds Us that Uyghurs Are Seeking Justice from the World
    A Uyghur Poet Reminds Us that Uyghurs Are Seeking Justice from the World

    After the Urumqi fire, it is time for the international community to stop the genocide. Perhaps a poem may help.

  • Uyghur Refugees in Turkey: A Hostel for the Homeless and the Troubled
    Uyghur Refugees in Turkey: A Hostel for the Homeless and the Troubled

    A flickering island of hope pieces together the fallout of Beijing’s “War on Terror.” It needs help.

  • Protests Against the Urumqi Fire Extend to Amsterdam
    Protests Against the Urumqi Fire Extend to Amsterdam

    The “lonely Uyghur protester” gathered some 300 Uyghur and Cantonese to demonstrate in Dam Square.

Primary Sidebar

Support Bitter Winter

Learn More

Follow us

Newsletter

Most Read

  • Pro-Chinese Propaganda by The World Muslim Communities Council: Uyghurs Strike Back by Gulfiye Y
  • Zhanargul Zhumatai: “Help Me, I Just Want to Leave China” by Ruth Ingram
  • L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 1. The Aesthetic Mind by Massimo Introvigne
  • Stricter Rules on Private Tutoring Protect Ideology Rather than Parents by Wang Zhipeng
  • Japan Religious Donations Law. 4. The Return of Brainwashing by Massimo Introvigne
  • Hong Kong: Christian Scholar Peng Manyuan Released but Not Rehabilitated by Gladys Kwok
  • The Weaponization of the CCP’s “Zero COVID” Against Tibet by Marco Respinti
  • L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 3. Art as Communication by Massimo Introvigne
  • L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 4. Art and Illustration by Massimo Introvigne
  • L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 5. Professionals vs. Amateurs by Massimo Introvigne

CHINA PERSECUTION MAP -SEARCH NEWS BY REGION

clickable geographical map of china, with regions

Footer

Instant Exclusive News
Instant Exclusive News

EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor-in-Chief

MASSIMO INTROVIGNE

Director-in-Charge

MARCO RESPINTI

ADDRESS

CESNUR

Via Confienza 19,

10121 Turin, Italy,

Phone: 39-011-541950

E-MAIL

We welcome submission of unpublished contributions, news, and photographs. Each submission implies the authorization for us to edit and publish texts and photographs. We reserve the right to decide which submissions are suitable for publication. Please, write to INFO@BITTERWINTER.ORG Thank you.

Newsletter

Follow us

LINKS

orlir-logo hrwf-logo cesnur-logo

Copyright © 2023 · Bitter Winter · PRIVACY POLICY· COOKIE POLICY