CHINA-INTERNAL: RE-EDUCATION CAMPS IN XINJIANG

Quoting official sources, RFA said there are re-education camps, called "career development centres", in Ghulja (in Chinese, Yining) county, in Ili Kazakh (Yili Hasake) Autonomous Prefecture, and Korla (Kuerle) city, in neighboring Bayin’gholin Mongol (Bayinguoleng Menggu) Autonomous Prefecture which hold at least 3,600 inmates. An instructor at Camp No. 4 could recall the official name of the facility and said “The name of our camp is ‘The Center for Developing Skills for a Professional Career.’ He said the name was because it was “changed four times in the past eight months.” “At first, it was called ‘The Law and Regulation Training Center For Citizens’ and then it was renamed ‘The Career Training Center For The Unemployed’ for a while, but now it is called ‘The Center For Developing Skills For a Professional Career.” According to the instructor, staff live inside the camp and share the same courtyard with detainees and the center’s main gate is guarded 24 hours a day and instructors are required to obtain permission if they need to leave the facility. The municipality houses three re-education camps with at least 2,100 detainees, as well as a “Socialism Institute,” where more than 40 religious figures are being held. Rehim Yasin, the Communist Party secretary of Korla’s Qara Yulghun village, said that 86 of his village’s 1,678 residents are currently being held in the city’s three re-education camps, which are known as “Professional Career Improvement Centers.”





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