‘Border of Tears’: Interviewing Victims of China’s Xinjiang Prison Camps

More than one million Uyghurs , Kazakhs , Kyrgyz , and others have been locked up in camps and prisons in Xinjiang in the last decade .

U.N. has warned that what is happening in the region may amount to “crimes against humanity,” while others, including the US State Department , have gone further, labeling it a genocide in 2021 .

Léa Polverini went to Kazakhstan to document what was happening to survivors of the camps who had fled across the border.

The eight -part, long feature series won the Thomson Foundation’s 2023 Kurt Schorkance Schorkorkance Award and was nominated for the 2023 Bayux Calvados-Normandy Award for Warvandy Award .

The series was produced by freelance journalists working for Slate.fr in France , which funded the project.

Léa Polverini is a freelance reporter from France who writes for Slate.fr , Middle East Eye , and Le Monde Diplomatique . The Pulitzer Center decided to lend its financial support to this project.

Its backing will enable us to publish a new chapter of this long history of China ’s transnational repression of East Turkestan ethnic minorities..