According to Business Insider, over 2 million Uyghurs have been forced into internment camps in Xinjiang, an independently controlled area of northwest China. There, they face countless forms of physical and mental abuse. The majority of these camps, which Vox reports to now outnumber 380, were constructed between 2017 and 2018, though this problem continues to run rampant today.
Uyghurs are a Turkish ethnic group and account for over 11 million of Xinjiang’s population of 21.82 million people, although they remain a minority in China, according to Britannica. Mostly village dwellers, their most prominent cities are Urumqi, in Xinjiang as well as Kashgar, close to the border of China and Russia.