Inside the camps set up by the Chinese Government, hundreds of ethnic Uyghur Muslims spend their days in a high-pressure indoctrination program, where they are forced to listen to lectures, sing hymns praising the Chinese Communist Party, and to write “self-criticism” essays, according to detainees who have been released. They are also often subject to physical punishment and humiliation which amounts to torture.

This mass detention treats Uyghur and other Turkic culture as ideological diseases by forcefully teaching Mandarin and Communist Party ideology, Han Chinese traditions, and by forcing Uyghurs to pledge loyalty to Xi Jingping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).