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Those people which havent graduated remain in those camps, but as they have been de-securitised to some degree, MANY detainees have begun to be transferred to higher-security tiers of the system, often including being formally sentenced to prison.
The next level up appears to also be for re-education, with the stated intention of 'rehabilitating' those seized with the evils of radicalistation (which includes fasting or praying), but are much higher security facilities with most buildings surrounded by fencing & walls.pic.twitter.com/gyJCMzOan8
These facilities don't seem to grant any privileges to the detainees who cannot leave except to nearby factories for their vocational training, but in this stage the idea appears to be far more ideological brainwashing/language teaching than vocational training.
Next, there are the 3rd tier of detention, these seem to essentially be prisons but for people not formally charged. In these places the focus doesn't seem to be any however-perverse idea of rehabilitation, but more to just remove people from the population. They look gnarly af.pic.twitter.com/dbFRrY9h1X
Needless to say, with 6 high barbed wire fences and a huge concrete wall standing between any detainee and any of the outside world, detainees in these facilities don't get out much for anything.pic.twitter.com/F5BDYy4e2J
Finally there are your classic prisons, where those sentenced live out years of pre-trial detention and then far longer in their prison sentences. Prior to the 2017 crackdown, prisons in Xinjiang looked like the first photo here, now they look like the last two.pic.twitter.com/FvvfnVYeA7
For a non-satellite perspective of what these four tiers actually mean. This famous photo probably came from a 2nd tier facility - the higher security re-education facility. This isn't even as bad as it probably gets in prisons or 3rd tier prison-like facilities.pic.twitter.com/qBWQ71eyVw
To bring this back to the original video, the detainees there were going from the relatively small Kashgar Detention Centre (first picture) to the much more expansive Korla facilities (red squares = prisons).pic.twitter.com/SP43zRnLJs
Kashgar has extensive re-education facilities but extremely limited detention facilities, the facility shown in the last tweet is the largest prison they have. Therefore it makes perfect sense that detainees are regularly transferred out of Kashgar to larger detention facilities.
Last year, I published a report with @fryan and @DaniellesCave for @ASPI_ICPC which looked at the physical growth of 28 camps. Please give it a look here. https://www.aspi.org.au/report/mapping-xinjiangs-re-education-camps … Since then we've learnt a lot more about the system, and expect more reports on it soon!
This may be the most earned "follow" I have given...
So after reeducation they are all released home?
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