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A revelatory account of what is really happening to China’s Uyghurs

‘Intimate, sombre, and damning… compelling.’ Financial Times
‘Chilling… Horrifying.’ Spectator
‘Invaluable.’ Telegraph

In China’s vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and workers, thousands of government documents, and over a decade of research, Darren Byler, one of the leading experts on Uyghur society uncovers their plight.

Revealing a sprawling network of surveillance technology supplied by firms in both China and the West, Byler shows how the country has created an unprecedented system of Orwellian control. A definitive account of one of the world’s gravest human rights violations, In the Camps is also a potent warning against the misuse of technology and big data.

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Harrowing and intensely human. A devastating account of the incarceration of almost an entire population by the all-knowing Chinese state, aided by sophisticated technology, much of it devised in the West. * John Kampfner, bestselling author of Why the Germans Do It Better * Inside China, a monstrous crime is being committed. This book tells the dark story of how the Uyghur people are being smudged out. Read it. * John Sweeney, investigative journalist and bestselling novelist * This important book takes us directly into the dystopian world of Uyghur dispossession, infrastructural power, and terror capitalism. Byler shines a piercing light into the darkness of Xinjiang's Surveillance State. * Lord Alton of Liverpool, Independent Crossbench Member of the House of Lords * Intimate, sombre and damning... These varied personal accounts tell of pervasive confusion and fear as, starting in 2017, a previously small-scale "re-education" programme suddenly became a sprawling system of internment camps where anyone suspected of "extremist thoughts" or "pre-crimes" was sent without trial. * Financial Times * A heart-breaking, brilliant and thought-provoking read. We all need to educate ourselves on how great injustices are being perpetrated against the innocent because of their religion and culture. * Gulwali Passarlay, author of The Lightless Sky *