The police files were hacked and leaked by an anonymous individual, then obtained by Adrian Zenz, a director of China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a US-based non-profit.

Dr Adrian Zenz, a leading expert in Beijing’s Xinjiang policies, said China was doing this to “eradicate” the Uyghurs as an ethnic group and extinguish their dream of independence.

Adrian Zenz, a senior fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington and an expert on Xinjiang, stated that Xinjiang Guannong, a company involved in forced labor, set up a ...