* A man has exposed 18 detention centres and prisons in Beijing using a covert camera hidden in his backpack
* Guan Guan, thought to be a Chinese activist studying in Taiwan, posted a 19-minute video on YouTube
* The footage shows barbed wire, guard towers, police checkpoints, army barracks and military vehicles
* One of the detention centres, around 1,000 yards long, is emblazoned with slogans ‘Reform Through Labour’
As he strolled along the street in the Chinese city of Urumqi, trying his best to look like a tourist, Guan Guan’s heart was in his mouth.
He knew this was not a place often visited by holidaymakers – and a camera hidden on his backpack was secretly filming the Communist regime’s internment camps.
The brave young man was on a covert mission: to expose to the world the hideous network of re-education camps, detention centres and prisons at the centre of Beijing’s brutal clampdown on Muslim minorities, especially the Uighurs, in Xinjiang province.
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Update #1: Xinjiang footage sheds new light on Uyghur detention camps (DW)
Update #2: China: New Documentary Sheds Light On Uyghur Detention Camps In Xinjiang (Republic World)
WNU Editor: These camps are probably the tip of the iceberg.