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 bruises and to see if they featured more prominently in detainees.
Category: Analysis
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.
Lives lost: Xinjiang-related violence vs. mass incarceration (in numbers)
This page seeks to maintain a detailed list of all the known violent incidents related to Xinjiang since 2000, and to calculate how the resulting death toll compares to the equivalent death toll from mass incarceration.
Estimating sentencing numbers from Xinjiang’s judicial statistics
Judicial data between 2007 and 2022 are reviewed, inconsistencies are identified and removed, and lower and upper estimates on numbers of individuals sentenced are computed.
The 2009-2015 Prisoners List: Summary and analysis of the 18000+ individuals therein
At the end of 2021, two large prisoner lists were leaked to database staff. One of them, covered here, contains information regarding over 18000 individuals, sentenced between 2009 and 2015 for political/religious reasons.