Monday Sunrise Briefs: China's Uighur crackdown, Iran's internet blackout

A new, insider’s perspective of China’s mass detention of Uighurs and other minorities in Xinjiang province emerged this weekend. More than 400 pages of documents were leaked to The New York Times by a member of the Chinese political establishment. The release is further confirmation of reporting by the Monitor and other news and human rights groups. It shows Xi Jinping’s campaign to incarcerate more than 1 million people in “reeducation” camps since 2014, justified by a “struggle against terrorism, infiltration and separatism.” The documents suggest internal dissent among Chinese leadership and reveal the

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