Home›Sources›Radio Free Asia, "Expert Says 1.8 Million Uyghurs, Muslim Minorities Held in Xinjiang's Internment Camps" (2019)SourcesRadio Free Asia, "Expert Says 1.8 Million Uyghurs, Muslim Minorities Held in Xinjiang's Internment Camps" (2019)Radio Free Asia, 23 November 2019Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Radio Free Asia, "Expert Says 1.8 Million Uyghurs, Muslim Minorities Held in Xinjiang's Internment Camps" (2019)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/rfa-2019-1point8-million-uyghurs-detained.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Radio Free Asia, "Expert Says 1.8 Million Uyghurs, Muslim Minorities Held in Xinjiang's Internment Camps" (2019). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/rfa-2019-1point8-million-uyghurs-detainedCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-radio-free-asia-expert-says-1-8-million, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Radio Free Asia, "Expert Says 1.8 Million Uyghurs, Muslim Minorities Held in Xinjiang's Internment Camps" (2019)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/rfa-2019-1point8-million-uyghurs-detained}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA 23 November 2019 Radio Free Asia report on researcher Adrian Zenz's revised estimate that Xinjiang authorities had detained up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in as many as 1,300 to 1,400 internment camps, built from a cache of more than 25,000 leaked Xinjiang government files including a spreadsheet naming nearly 1,500 people detained from a single village in Kashgar. The figure is the third and highest in a public progression from Zenz's own earlier assessments (roughly 1.1 million, then 1.5 million in March 2019).FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (3 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested2 1Established international news reporting on a named researcher's document-based estimate, the same tier as this database's other contemporary news sources (Dawn, Human Rights Watch dispatches); not a primary government or international-body record itself, which is why it sits one tier below the OHCHR assessment already cited here.NotesWell-attestedRadio Free Asia is a US government-funded, editorially independent news organization with long-standing dedicated Uyghur-language reporting; the estimate it reports is Adrian Zenz's own, built from a large leaked-document cache rather than extrapolation, and is used here as the upper end of the detained-count range alongside the OHCHR-sourced lower figure already recorded. 1CitationAuthorWell-attestedRadio Free Asia (reporting Adrian Zenz's estimate) 1PublisherWell-attestedRadio Free Asia 1Publication YearWell-attested2019 1URLWell-attestedhttps://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/detainees-11232019223242.html 1Source TypeWell-attestednews feature 1Sources1. Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Editiontier 1Radio Free Asia, "Expert Says 1.8 Million Uyghurs, Muslim Minorities Held in Xinjiang's Internment Camps" (2019)tier 2Radio Free Asia (reporting Adrian Zenz's estimate), Radio Free Asia, 2019View the SourceClaims Backed By This Source (3 claims)This source backs 3 claims across the atlas. As facts: 1 scholarly debate. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicReligious Events, 2 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.Spread Events, 1 claims: 1 general references.Scholarly debate1Religious EventsThe Uyghur Internment in XinjiangGeneral References2Religious EventsThe Uyghur Internment in XinjiangSpread EventsChina Launches Mass Internment of Uyghur Muslims in XinjiangComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year