Hey Reddit, I’m VICE News Correspondent Isobel Yeung. Over the past two years, China has rounded up an estimated 1 million Muslim Uighurs and placed them in so-called "re-education camps". They've also transformed the Uighur homeland of China's northwestern Xinjiang region into the most sophisticated surveillance state in the world, meaning they can now spy on citizens' every move and every spoken word.
To prevent information from leaking out, the Chinese government have made it incredibly difficult to report from this highly secretive state. So we snuck in as tourists and filmed undercover. What we witnessed was a dystopian nightmare, where Uighurs of all stripes are racially profiled, men were led away by police in the middle of the night, and children separated from their families and placed in state-sanctions institutions - as if they are orphans.
I’m here to answer any of your questions on my reporting and the plight of the Uighers.
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