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    What It’s Like to Report on Rights Abuses Against Your Own Family

    Radio Free Asia’s Uighur journalists report on China’s internment of hundreds of thousands of members of the country’s Muslim minority—including, in many cases, their families and friends.
    by Andrew McCormick Mar 01, 2019 5 minutes
    Source: Thomas Peter / Reuters

    Soon after Radio Free Asia (RFA) broke the news that thousands of Uighurs were being interned in China’s far-western Xinjiang province, Shohret Hoshur, a reporter with RFA’s Uighur Service, set out to determine just how many people authorities intended to detain. On the phone with a Communist Party secretary in one village, he pressed for a number. Forty percent of adults, came the reply. Was this an estimate, or an order from above? Hoshur asked. It was an order, the official responded.

    That was in the fall of 2017. At the time, even more than now, Xinjiang’s detention centers were shrouded in mystery. The quota shocked Hoshur for its sweeping scale. It also belied that those being taken into custody were guilty of crimes or associated with extremist activity. Today estimates place the number of, and researchers say China’s actions amount to , if they do not mark a .

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