China's network of secret detention facilities for Uyghurs in Xinjiang appears to be expanding, despite Beijing's claims that all detainees have 'graduated' from the centres.
, a claim activists and human rights groups were quick to dispute.
"All of them have graduated, there is no-one in the education and training centre now," Mr Wang said, adding that "they all have found jobs".In their analysis of the detention system, ASPI divided the 380 facilities it detected via satellite into four tiers based on the level of security at the sites.
Internal fencing, barbed wire and external perimeter walls had been removed from many Tier 1 and Tier 2 facilities. ASPI's research found that most of the 14 facilities still under construction in Xinjiang in 2020 were prisons, and around half of the 61 facilities that received recent construction work have been high-security camps.
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