A blogger has risked his life to post pictures on Twitter of centres where it's alleged Chinese people are sent if social media accounts are found on their phones.
The blogger known as Kasim claims that in China's heavily Muslim Xinjiang region police are seizing residents' phones and installing spyware on them to restrict what they can access.
Those caught with Facebook and Twitter on their phones are then sent to re-education' centres to clamp down on their social media use, he says.
Re-education centres have swept across Xinjiang, a territory half the area of India.
The government says the camps are re-education and training facilities, and have been highly successful in stopping attacks previously blamed on Islamist militants and separatists, but rights groups say they are internment camps.
In China's Xinjiang region police are accused of seizing residents' phones and installing spyware on them to restrict what they can access. A blogger named Kasim said they are sent to 'concentration camps' if they are found with social media on their phones. He said he risked his life to post pictures of the locations of two of the camps on Twitter. One of the buildings is pictured
Kasim posted a series of Tweets which include pictures of two buildings he claims are used as camps.
He said that people are being sentenced to 15 years there if they have Facebook on their phones
He described them as 'concentration camps' and posted co-ordinates of their locations.
He also posted other pictures of locations around the secretive region which is says is like 'living in Nazi Germany'.
Kasim posted a picture of this street in the region which has a surveillance camera
A pictured of a CCTV camera in China’s terrifying police state
Kasim, who claims he used specialist sensors to bypass the Chinese Government's sensors and post his Tweets, told The Sun Online: 'China doesn't want you to know what's happening outside of China, so they've built a firewall.
'Police check your phone looking for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – any app not made in China.
'If they catch you with any of these apps, or in contact with someone abroad – even
