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  • Title: Cultural Destruction Timeline
  • Creator: Xinjiang Documentation Project
  • Subject: Cultural Destruction
  • Language: English
  • Item Type: Document
  • Description: This timeline outlines state efforts to regulate religious and cultural expression in Xinjiang. With justifications ranging from deradicalization to development, authorities have eliminated public events, razed mosques and graveyards, and enforced linguistic and cultural homogeneity.
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    • Description: This timeline outlines state efforts to regulate religious and cultural expression in Xinjiang. With justifications ranging from deradicalization to development, authorities have eliminated public events, razed mosques and graveyards, and enforced linguistic and cultural homogeneity.
  • Title: Forced Labour and Detainment Transfer Timeline
  • Creator: Xinjiang Documentation Project
  • Subject: Vocational Training Centres
  • Language: English
  • Item Type: Document
  • Description: This timeline shows the steps Chinese authorities took to present the internment camp system as ‘vocational training centres’. Under international pressure, state spokespersons have announced the camps as “closed” but in fact, the detainees have either been transferred into long-term prisons or have become forced labourers.
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    • Description: This timeline shows the steps Chinese authorities took to present the internment camp system as ‘vocational training centres’. Under international pressure, state spokespersons have announced the camps as “closed” but in fact, the detainees have either been transferred into long-term prisons or have become forced labourers.
  • Title: Freedom of Religious Belief in Xinjiang
  • Creator: The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
  • Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2016
  • Subject: “De-extremization” Policies
  • Language: English
  • Item Type: Document
  • Description: This paper begins by giving a historical overview of inter and intrareligious conflict in Xinjiang and the surrounding regions to illustrate a lack of freedom of religion in the region. It claims that the total freedom of religion was achieved only after the People’s Republic of China was founded. The paper then boasts of the success of these “de-extremization” policies and concludes by highlighting the need to shape and localize the development of religions for the religions own benefit.
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    • Description: This paper begins by giving a historical overview of inter and intrareligious conflict in Xinjiang and the surrounding regions to illustrate a lack of freedom of religion in the region. It claims that the total freedom of religion was achieved only after the People’s Republic of China was founded. The paper then boasts of the success of these “de-extremization” policies and concludes by highlighting the need to shape and localize the development of religions for the religions own benefit.
  • Title: Freedom of Religious Belief in Xinjiang - An...
  • Creator: Xinjiang Documentation Project
  • Subject: “De-extremization” Policies
  • Language: English
  • Item Type: Document
  • Description: This paper begins by giving a historical overview of inter and intrareligious conflict in Xinjiang and the surrounding regions to illustrate a lack of freedom of religion in the region. It claims that the total freedom of religion was achieved only after the People’s Republic of China was founded. The paper then boasts of the success of these “de-extremization” policies and concludes by highlighting the need to shape and localize the development of religions for the religions own benefit.
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    • Description: This paper begins by giving a historical overview of inter and intrareligious conflict in Xinjiang and the surrounding regions to illustrate a lack of freedom of religion in the region. It claims that the total freedom of religion was achieved only after the People’s Republic of China was founded. The paper then boasts of the success of these “de-extremization” policies and concludes by highlighting the need to shape and localize the development of religions for the religions own benefit.
  • Title: Identifying Religious Extremism - An Overview
  • Creator: Xinjiang Documentation Project
  • Subject: Identifying Religious Extremism
  • Language: English
  • Item Type: Document
  • Description: Published in 2017 in multiple news outlets, these documents were intended for distribution among communities throughout Xinjiang. The expressed intent was to provide individuals with 75 different activities and behaviors that the PRC government deemed as potential religious extremism. Individuals were encouraged to report any of these activities to local authorities for further investigation.
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    • Description: Published in 2017 in multiple news outlets, these documents were intended for distribution among communities throughout Xinjiang. The expressed intent was to provide individuals with 75 different activities and behaviors that the PRC government deemed as potential religious extremism. Individuals were encouraged to report any of these activities to local authorities for further investigation.
  • Title: Integrated Operating Platform Work Instructions
  • Creator: Internal Integrated Joint Operating Platform Surveillance Document
  • Subject: Surveillance Instructions
  • Language: Chinese
  • Item Type: Document
  • Description: This set of work instructions for Integrated Joint Operating Platform (IJOP) workers was uploaded to the Model Essay Center (范文中心), which collects essay and texts relevant to the training of low-ranking state officials. It offers insight into how the platform collects information about surveilled individuals, how it passes this information through different administrative units, and how it categorizes the individuals under suspicion–including students studying abroad and Kazakh citizens.
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    • Description: This set of work instructions for Integrated Joint Operating Platform (IJOP) workers was uploaded to the Model Essay Center (范文中心), which collects essay and texts relevant to the training of low-ranking state officials. It offers insight into how the platform collects information about surveilled individuals, how it passes this information through different administrative units, and how it categorizes the individuals under suspicion–including students studying abroad and Kazakh citizens.
  • Title: Integrated Operating Platform Work Instructions - An Overview
  • Creator: Xinjiang Documentation Project
  • Subject: Surveillance Instructions
  • Language: English
  • Item Type: Document
  • Description: This set of work instructions for Integrated Joint Operating Platform (IJOP) workers was uploaded to the Model Essay Center (范文中心), which collects essay and texts relevant to the training of low-ranking state officials. It offers insight into how the platform collects information about surveilled individuals, how it passes this information through different administrative units, and how it categorizes the individuals under suspicion–including students studying abroad and Kazakh citizens.
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    • Description: This set of work instructions for Integrated Joint Operating Platform (IJOP) workers was uploaded to the Model Essay Center (范文中心), which collects essay and texts relevant to the training of low-ranking state officials. It offers insight into how the platform collects information about surveilled individuals, how it passes this information through different administrative units, and how it categorizes the individuals under suspicion–including students studying abroad and Kazakh citizens.
  • Title: Learning and Identifying 75 Religious Extreme Activities in...
  • Creator: The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee
  • Date: Monday, June 19, 2017
  • Subject: Identifying Religious Extremism
  • Language: Chinese
  • Item Type: Document
  • Description: Published in 2017 in multiple news outlets, these documents were intended for distribution among communities throughout Xinjiang. The expressed intent was to provide individuals with 75 different activities and behaviors that the PRC government deemed as potential religious extremism. Individuals were encouraged to report any of these activities to local authorities for further investigation.
    • Additional Details
    • Description: Published in 2017 in multiple news outlets, these documents were intended for distribution among communities throughout Xinjiang. The expressed intent was to provide individuals with 75 different activities and behaviors that the PRC government deemed as potential religious extremism. Individuals were encouraged to report any of these activities to local authorities for further investigation.
  • Title: Major Events Preceding the Construction of Re-Education Camps
  • Creator: Xinjiang Documentation Project
  • Subject: Re-education Camps
  • Language: English
  • Item Type: Document
  • Description: This timeline gives an overview of major events since the turn of the century, that preceded the establishment of “re-education camps” in Xinjiang. Human rights watchdogs have categorized these camps as mass prisons and internment camps.
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    • Description: This timeline gives an overview of major events since the turn of the century, that preceded the establishment of “re-education camps” in Xinjiang. Human rights watchdogs have categorized these camps as mass prisons and internment camps.
  • Title: The Fight Against Terrorism and Extremism and Human...
  • Creator: The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
  • Date: Friday, March 1, 2019
  • Subject: Human Rights
  • Language: English
  • Item Type: Document
  • Description: The paper starts by setting the theme, highlighting terrorism as a threat and attempts to pre-empt any notion of Xinjiang’s sovereignty by giving a short overview of the Chinese claim over Xinjiang. In the first two sections, the paper seeks to show the close linkage between separatism and extremism in Xinjiang and gives a short overview of the East Turkestan separatist movement and accuses it of continued acts of sabotage. The third section of the paper lists out ‘attacks’ purportedly carried out by terrorists and separatists. In the fourth section, the importance of fighting terrorism while sticking to the principles of law is highlighted. The paper concludes by carefully highlighting (as it also does throughout the text) that all its anti-terrorism efforts have been in accordance with the law.
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    • Description: The paper starts by setting the theme, highlighting terrorism as a threat and attempts to pre-empt any notion of Xinjiang’s sovereignty by giving a short overview of the Chinese claim over Xinjiang. In the first two sections, the paper seeks to show the close linkage between separatism and extremism in Xinjiang and gives a short overview of the East Turkestan separatist movement and accuses it of continued acts of sabotage. The third section of the paper lists out ‘attacks’ purportedly carried out by terrorists and separatists. In the fourth section, the importance of fighting terrorism while sticking to the principles of law is highlighted. The paper concludes by carefully highlighting (as it also does throughout the text) that all its anti-terrorism efforts have been in accordance with the law.
  • Title: The Fight Against Terrorism and Extremism and Human...
  • Creator: Xinjiang Documentation Project
  • Subject: Human Rights
  • Language: English
  • Item Type: Document
  • Description: The paper starts by setting the theme, highlighting terrorism as a threat and attempts to pre-empt any notion of Xinjiang’s sovereignty by giving a short overview of the Chinese claim over Xinjiang. In the first two sections, the paper seeks to show the close linkage between separatism and extremism in Xinjiang and gives a short overview of the East Turkestan separatist movement and accuses it of continued acts of sabotage. The third section of the paper lists out ‘attacks’ purportedly carried out by terrorists and separatists. In the fourth section, the importance of fighting terrorism while sticking to the principles of law is highlighted. The paper concludes by carefully highlighting (as it also does throughout the text) that all its anti-terrorism efforts have been in accordance with the law.
    • Additional Details
    • Description: The paper starts by setting the theme, highlighting terrorism as a threat and attempts to pre-empt any notion of Xinjiang’s sovereignty by giving a short overview of the Chinese claim over Xinjiang. In the first two sections, the paper seeks to show the close linkage between separatism and extremism in Xinjiang and gives a short overview of the East Turkestan separatist movement and accuses it of continued acts of sabotage. The third section of the paper lists out ‘attacks’ purportedly carried out by terrorists and separatists. In the fourth section, the importance of fighting terrorism while sticking to the principles of law is highlighted. The paper concludes by carefully highlighting (as it also does throughout the text) that all its anti-terrorism efforts have been in accordance with the law.
  • Title: Translation of Integrated Operating Platform Work Instructions
  • Creator: Internal Integrated Joint Operating Platform Surveillance Document
  • Subject: Surveillance Instructions
  • Language: English
  • Item Type: Document
  • Description: This set of work instructions for Integrated Joint Operating Platform (IJOP) workers was uploaded to the Model Essay Center (范文中心), which collects essay and texts relevant to the training of low-ranking state officials. It offers insight into how the platform collects information about surveilled individuals, how it passes this information through different administrative units, and how it categorizes the individuals under suspicion–including students studying abroad and Kazakh citizens.
    • Additional Details
    • Description: This set of work instructions for Integrated Joint Operating Platform (IJOP) workers was uploaded to the Model Essay Center (范文中心), which collects essay and texts relevant to the training of low-ranking state officials. It offers insight into how the platform collects information about surveilled individuals, how it passes this information through different administrative units, and how it categorizes the individuals under suspicion–including students studying abroad and Kazakh citizens.