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<\/p>\nWhile China tries to defend the indefensible claiming that the transformation through education camps are benign \u201cschools,\u201d one of our reporters secretly visited the new large camp in Yining, Xinjiang, and proved it is undoubtedly a jail.<\/p>\n
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Exterior view of the re-education camp in Huocheng county<\/p>\n
On November 6, the United Nations Human Rights Council<\/a> conducted its Universal Periodic Review<\/a> of China. Several countries denounced the transformation through education camps<\/a>, particularly those for Uyghurs<\/a> in Xinjiang<\/a>, as places where the inmates are subjected to psychological pressure, inhumane treatments, and torture. China answered that they are simply \u201ceducational\u201d facilities. Bitter Winter<\/em> has repeatedly documented that this is not the case, and is now in a position to offer unpublished news, images, and footages.<\/p>\n Vehicles entering the re-education camp must pass through two gates.<\/p>\n The detainees\u2019 family members who are attending the public trial meeting line up outside the re-education camp, waiting to be summoned.<\/p>\n In May of this year, authorities in Xinjiang began to build a large-scale \u201ctransformation through education\u201d camp in place of a lumber mill and a free market for buying and selling cattle and sheep, in the city of Yining, Huocheng county<\/a>. In three months, the construction of this camp was basically completed, covering an area of about 100,000 square meters.<\/p>\n A family member undergoes a security check.<\/p>\n In August, the construction of this camp was in its final stages. When conducting a secret visit inside the camp, one of our reporters discovered that there are altogether nine buildings, where \u201cstudents,\u201d are detained, surrounded by barbed-wire fences. Each building is four floors high, and each floor has 27 rooms (dormitories) and three \u201cclassrooms.\u201d All the dormitories and \u201cclassrooms\u201d are fitted with double iron doors, and iron bars have been installed on all the windows. The facility\u2019s structure is obviously very much similar to that of a prison.<\/p>\n Police patrol and stand guard outside the re-education camp.<\/p>\n A construction worker revealed that most people who would be locked up there, in fact, received prison sentences; some of them were sentenced to five or six years. He also emphasized that the camp was really tantamount to a prison, with little hope for the inmates to be let out or escape.<\/p>\n A large-scale production base has been built adjacent to the re-education camp.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/docs.uhrp.org\/images\/Vehicles-entering-the-re-education-camp-must-pass-through-two-gates.jpg\")
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