What it's like inside the internment camps China uses to oppress its Muslim minority, according to people who've been there

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• China is accused of detaining up to 1 million Uighur Muslims in internment camps in the western region of Xinjiang.
• Two Uighurs who had been inside those camps have told BBC Newsnight about the physical and psychological torture that goes on there.
• One described being shackled to a chair, deprived of sleep, and beaten by authorities in the camp.
• Another said he saw seeing people he used to know look like they had "lost their souls."

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New details have emerged of the re-education camps in which China has been accused of imprisoning up to 1 million Uighurs, a majority-Muslim ethnic minority, in the country's western region of Xinjiang.

Political prisoners in those camps are both physically and mentally tortured, two eyewitnesses of the camp told BBC Newsnight in a documentary aired on Thursday night.

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