Uighur activists said Tuesday they have documented nearly 500 camps and prisons run by
China to detain the ethnic group, alleging that China could be holding far more than the commonly cited figure of one million people.
The East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, a Washington-based group that seeks independence for the mostly Muslim region known to China as Xinjiang, said it assessed images from
Google Earth and found 182 suspected "concentration camps" which it listed by coordinates.
"In large part these have not been previously identified, so we could be talking about far greater numbers" of people detained, said Kyle Olbert, the director of operations for the movement.