Over one million people were held in China’s 1,200 Xinjiang internment camps

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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

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• ADDENDUM: Hijab removal as ‘dignity taking’ parallels the dress-degradation theme in the immodesty article — forced stripping of religious garb as state control.