BBC published a good special report on the camps in Northwest China that have mostly Uighur in them, Muslims who are denied their faith and customs in favor of "unity" and harmony. The BBC got satellite imagery of these places and showed the growth since 2015 - basically from arid domain to full scale camps in that amount of time. BBC used map overlays and sequenced layers to add a dimension to this that only imagery analysts are used to getting.
BBC also has good insight into how the press is treated in China, and this article does a lot to expose the tactics that the observers who followed them around were really interested in protecting. (the BBC has been good at this for a long time) The locals around these camps know a lot about them and the people who have been released back into the communities. They are the ones who talk and China has difficulty controlling that part.
There are more than 10 million Uighurs in Xinjiang, and these camps are holding nearly a million people. Imagine a country that can put 1 in 10 of a population in jails and think the outcome will be better for everyone. China is going to be living with the aftermath of this solution for a lot longer than the problem warranted.
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