aimed at countering china s influence. (singing). and we meet the nigerian queen who fits in her role as a royal with entertaining her subjects. hello and welcome. documents seen by the bbc that are said to have been hacked from chinese police computers show that uyghur prisoners in the western region of xinjiang are shot on sight if they are caught trying to escape. thousands of photographs shed light on a secretive system of mass incarceration. the chinese government has dismissed as fake news , claims that uyghurs are arbitrarily detained in the region. john sudworth, who spent many years reporting from xinjiang as the bbc s china correspondent, has this special report. these are the faces of china never intended us to see. from inside its system of mass incarceration and xinjiang. they insist these camps are vocational schools for willing students. the photos, almost 3000 of them show the reality of how whole swathes of uyghur society have swept up person by person stopp
draconianjail spreadsheets, row upon row of draconian jail sentences often targeting expressions of islamic faith, as a parallel method alongside the camps for detaining uyghurs on masse. just for growing a beard, this man was sentenced to 16 years in jail. man was sentenced to 16 years injail. his chosen man was sentenced to 16 years in jail. his chosen expression of uyghur identity forcibly removed. by speaking to members of the uyghur daily aspirin places like turkey the bbc has been able to verify the data, showing it to contain real people. this man for example knew his eldest son had been jailed but the database tells and for how long. 15 years for terrorism offences. although as evidence, only has son s devout islamic faith is listed. in response to questions, the chinese embassy in the us issued a statement, saying in the grave and complex counterterrorism situation in xinjiang the authorities had taken a host of decisive,