The Xinjiang Victims Database (shahit.biz) documents the individuals interned in, or made victims by, the mass-incarceration campaign undertaken by the Chinese authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Here, you may find our blog outlet, where we post original articles, write-ups, and translations.
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Elderly woman dies in Urumqi prison, following over two decades of persecution for Falun Gong
While Luo Chuanmei’s story reads like an incredible tragedy, defined by periods of detention and mistreatment that form an almost continuous 25-year arc and end with her demise in that same system, it is a story that – for Falun Gong in Xinjiang, at least – is far from unique.
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Visual signs of violence, or lack thereof, in the Xinjiang Police Files photos
The regular use of violence in detention, both in punishment and interrogation, has been reported in the vast majority of eyewitness accounts from Xinjiang. In an attempt to corroborate this forensically, the Xinjiang Victims Database analyzed the thousands of photos from the Xinjiang Police Files for evidence of skin discoloration, so as to identify potential…
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An estimate on the number of children separated from parents in southern Xinjiang
In the vast majority of cases, the father was detained first and the mother was detained later. The most common scenario by far was the father being given a long prison term in 2017 and the mother being sent to camp the following year.