The CCP is imprisoning people and putting people into re-education camps who do not need re-education. This is made possible due to the vague reasons someone can get detained.
Highlighted examples are from official sources.
Examples
- Highly educated people
- Uyghur intellectuals and professionals are put in re-education camps
- Murat Muqan: mid-level well-exploration engineer, has a bachelors of science in physics from Xinjiang University.
- Mahsut Kulimqan: Chief Orthopedic Surgeon
- For going abroad
- Students abroad were forced to return to Xinjiang in 2017
- Abduweli Ababekri: Abduweli Ababekri had a dentist clinic in Urumqi. In 2017, he was sent to camp for having a brother who had “escaped” to Turkey. Four of his brothers have also been taken to camp, while both of their parents passed away in 2016-2017.
- Zagi Qurmanbai: Guilty of visiting Kazakhstan 16 times
- Zhalyn Muqiat: Guilty of visiting Kazakhstan 7-8 times
- Eli Mettursun: Going to Dubai and Saudi arabia for Hajj.
- Turkinaz Alim: Studying in Turkey
- Mahire Yaqup: Sending money to Australian family (funding terrorism)
- For their relatives
- Dina Nurdybai: Having family in Kazakhstan
- Abduhapiz Jappar: His wife wore a veil
- Abduweli Ababekri: Being a relative of a person who “escaped abroad”. (His brother lives in Turkey.)
- Abdurehim Allaberdi: His parents live in Saudi Arabia. He would be released if they came back.
- Melike Mettohti: "having a deeply religious family," "being a relative of a person who "escaped abroad"" (her husband lives in Turkey)
- For normal religious practices
- Ismayil Sidiq: For praying in prison, yelling at co-inmates, refusing to write a thought report.
- Musa Hekim: “Extremism” (having a beard and praying).
- Abdulikim Roziheyt: Beard, veil, “extremist ideology”, quran, children
- Ma Sheng: Being part of Tablighi Jamaat (being part of a cult). And teaching Riyad-as-Saliheen and Muntakhab Ahadith (“good in terms of content, but illegaly published”).
- Eli Mettursun: Growing a long beard between 2009 and 2012
- Melike Mettohti: "obstinately worn a veil," "having a deeply religious family," "going on hajj twice"
- Huang Shike: Creating a Wechat group for prayer and religious education
- For having certain apps on their phone or computer
- Guladya Ilmahyn: Whatsapp
- Kurman Ali Abuhan: Whatsapp
- Alqumar Ratai: Whatsapp
- Aman Ulzharyq: Whatsapp
- Murat Muqan: Whatsapp, instagram (suspected)
- Mural Muqan: "foreign applications"
- Mahsut Kulimqan: Whatsapp
- Zagi Qurmanbai: Whatsapp, sharing sim card
- Dina Nurdybai: Whatsapp
- For sharing information abroad
- That one dude from the Guardian who sent a letter from his parents
- Chen Haoyu: For sharing government directives to make anti-Pompeo videos.
- Merhaba Musa: 10+ years prison for "leaking secrets" (expressing mild criticism of the camps to her friend abroad)
- Miscellaneous
- Guzelay Memetislam: Being "discontent with society" and an "untrustworthy person".
- Ekber Tursun: did not have a permanent living place, did not have a stable source of income, and was difficult to monitor.
- Mahmuti Dunias: sent to the concentration camp because he saw videos on the internet claiming that Uyghur communist party members are not true Muslims. They do not follow Islam. He is in the concentration camp for more than one year.
- (But this is true tho?!?! CCP party members have to be atheist)