China cables reveal 23 Australian citizens 'red-flagged' in Uighur crackdown

Officials instructed to subject Australians to identity verification and either deport or detain them in Xinjiang internment camps, leaked documents reveal

The Chinese government “red-flagged” 23 Australian citizens in its sweeping crackdown in Xinjiang that resulted in the detention of at least a million people from the nation’s Muslim minorities, leaked Communist party documents reveal.

Officials were instructed to subject the 23 Australians – and 52 other people believed to have second passports and be inside China – to identity verification “one by one” and then to either deport or detain them.

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