'Allow no escapes': leak exposes reality of China's vast prison camp network

Documents confirm largest mass incarceration of an ethnic-religious minority since second world war

• Uighur's 10-year term reveals level of repression
• Secret memo on how to run camps

The internal workings of a vast chain of Chinese internment camps used to detain at least a million people from the nation's Muslim minorities are laid out in leaked Communist Party documents published on Sunday.

The China Cables, a cache of classified government papers, appear to provide the first official glimpse into the structure, daily life and ideological framework behind centres in north-western Xinjiang region that have provoked international condemnation.