Since early 2016, more than one million Uighurs and other ethnic minority members – roughly ten percent of the largely Muslim minority-population – at times have been or continue to be deprived of their liberty under the administrative measure of “Transformation Through Education” (TTE) in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This MERICS China Policy Brief provides an analysis on Beijing's coercive policies in Xinjiang and recommendations for European actors.

Key findings and recommendations: