{"id":112440,"date":"2022-05-24T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112440"},"modified":"2022-05-24T07:37:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T11:37:07","slug":"london-times-chinese-police-told-to-shoot-uighurs-who-try-to-escape-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112440","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Chinese police told to shoot Uighurs who try to escape camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uighur prisoners in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang are to be shot on sight should they try to escape from \u201cre-education\u201d camps where they are said to be arbitrarily detained, according to leaked police documents.<\/p>\n<p>A cache of police files allegedly obtained by hackers and shared with foreign media also reveals the faces of nearly 3,000 people, including children, who appear to have been detained because of their religion.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BBC, the official files outline an internal police protocol that \u201cdescribes the routine use of armed officers in all areas of the camps, the positioning of machineguns and sniper rifles in the watchtowers and the existence of a shoot-to-kill policy for those trying to escape\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/chinese-police-told-to-shoot-uighurs-who-try-to-escape-camps-lqxfvt2sr\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Uighur prisoners in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang are to be shot on sight should they try to escape from so-called \u201cre-education\u201d camps , according to leaked police documents <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/At7ImuJ7Rs\">https:\/\/t.co\/At7ImuJ7Rs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Times (@thetimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thetimes\/status\/1529032341082996742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uighur prisoners in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang are to be shot on sight should they try to escape from \u201cre-education\u201d camps where they are said to be arbitrarily detained, according to leaked police documents. A cache of police<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112440\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,426,108,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-islam","category-religion-culture","category-religious-freedom-persecution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112444,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112440\/revisions\/112444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}