China picks up Uyghurs in Xinjiang on the basis of “behavior analyzing software”

Some of those people have been arrested for being “untrustworthy” (without any explanation as to why), because they were “born after 1980”, because they had a smartphone or called relatives abroad.

These are all legally permissible acts, yet those people were locked up in the infamous “re-education camps”, the existence of which China initially denied, but now admits. A million Uyghurs would be locked up in it, often for a very long time. They receive “lessons” in “patriotism”, loyalty to the communist party and other propaganda. As forced laborers, they would also make products for export. A number of countries have therefore banned the import of some products from China.

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