China detains over one million people in twelve hundred Xinjiang camps.

Evidence

Immediately after her arrest, Jelilova was taken to a concentration camp. There, she learned that more than 1 million people were detained inside of China’s swelling network of 1,200 prison camps. The inner sanctums of these camps were theaters of mass discipline and ghastly punishment, which for Jelilova began with the removal of her hijab. Prison guards cackled as they replaced the Islamic headdress with a freshly shaved head. After that initial “dignity taking,” Jelilova was escorted to a cell, where she met other women who had been arrested on terror charges. The majority of them were Uyghur; all of them were Muslim. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 532

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the global synthesis Beydoun is building with the other international cases of Islamophobic state repression and surveillance.