Secret memo on how to run China’s prison camps – annotated

Excerpts from a 2017 'telegram' from Zhu Hailun, the top security official for Xinjiang

The internal workings of a vast system 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.

A classified order from a top Chinese security official makes clear the re-education camps in the country's north-west - which it describes as vocational training centres - are involuntary, secret and used for ideological "education transformation".