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.
Category: Analysis
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.