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This section contains a curated list of useful articles, investigations, books and other reading materials. The list is updated on a weekly basis and suggestions for additions are welcome.

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Eyewitness Accounts

Overview Reports

Lists / Databases of Victims

Satellite Imagery of Camps, Prisons & Cultural Destruction

Lina K 14/03/2023 Lina K 14/03/2023

Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Statistics

This portal provides statistics on shipments subjected to reviews or enforcement actions under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which prohibits the import of any goods sourced or produced wholly or in part in Xinjiang.

Lina K 22/06/2022 Lina K 22/06/2022

Uyghur Forced Labor Database

Jewish World Watch’s Uyghur Forced Labor Database – the most extensive to date – brings to light more than 600 national and international companies and their ties to the Xinjiang region of China.

Lina K 23/04/2022 Lina K 23/04/2022

Xinjiang Victims Database - Lists

This section of the Xinjiang Victims Database contains themed lists of victims, intended to focus on specific groups not identifiable solely by the database's tag system.

Lina K 23/04/2022 Lina K 23/04/2022

Xinjiang Victims Database

Updated on an ongoing basis, The Xinjiang Victims Database is a database which attempts to record all currently known individuals who are detained in Xinjiang internment camps in China, had their documents confiscated and movement restricted, or been subject to forced labour. Many of the profiles also contain personal testimony from the family and friends of detainees.

Lina K 19/10/2021 Lina K 19/10/2021

Xinjiang's Architecture of Repression

This chart maps the key bureaucratic offices involved in designing, coordinating and implementing the Chinese Communist Party’s policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in western China.

Lina K 24/09/2020 Lina K 24/09/2020

Xinjiang Detention and Cultural Sites Interactive Map

ASPI researchers have located, mapped and analysed over 380 suspected detention facilities in Xinjiang that have been built or expanded since 2017, making it the most comprehensive dataset on Xinjiang’s detention system in the world. The project has also located and analysed hundreds of mosques and other important Uyghur and Islamic cultural sites in Xinjiang and assessed how many have been demolished or damaged since 2017. Both datasets are viewable on this interactive map.

Lina K 20/11/2019 Lina K 20/11/2019

Coordinates of Concentration Camps, Prisons and Labour Camps

This dataset, available to view on Google Earth, identifies a number of suspected concentration camps, prisons, and labor camps in East Turkistan (what China calls the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region”).