China footage reveals hundreds of blindfolded and shackled prisoners

By artappraiser on Mon, 09/23/2019 - 10:54pm |

By Lily Kuo from Beijing @ TheGuardian.com, Sept. 23

[....] The video, posted anonymously on YouTube last week, shows what appear to be Uighur or other minorities wearing blue and yellow uniforms, with cleanly shaven heads, their eyes covered, sitting in rows on the ground [....] Nathan Ruser, a researcher with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s international cyber policy centre, used clues in the footage, including landmarks and the position of the sun, to verify the video, which he believes was shot at a train station west of Korla in south-east Xinjiang in August last year [....]