The hacked ‘Xinjiang Police Files’ expose the draconian measures Chinese authorities have taken to detain millions of Uyghurs in East Turkestan. Earlier this year, the BBC received the ‘Xinjiang Police Files’. Having investigated and authenticated them for months, they now provide significant new insights into the internment of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in the region. A huge cache of data hacked from police computer servers in East Turkestan (referred to by the Chinese as “Xinjiang”, “new colony”) includes thousands of photographs from China’s highly secretive system of mass incarceration in East Turkestan, as well as a ‘shoot-to-kill policy’. The...