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UNDATED (AP) — Secret documents show the Chinese government used mass surveillance and an integrated computing system to target pious Muslims and Uighurs who traveled abroad for detention in internment camps. Border guards were ordered to “ensure they’re arrested the moment they cross the border.” More than a million people from ethnic minorities are held in the camps. The documents show they were forced to learn Mandarin and Communist ideology.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer says he and President Donald Trump no longer share the same understanding of what Spencer calls “the key principle of good order and discipline.” Spencer made that claim in a letter to Trump after the chief of the Pentagon fired him amid a dispute over the fate of a SEAL accused of war crimes in Iraq. Trump has championed the SEAL’s case, overruling the sailor’s demotion and stating his opposition to kicking him out of the elite naval force.
HONG KONG (AP) — The pro-democracy opposition appears to have swept to a resounding victory in Hong Kong elections, as a record turnout dealt a clear rebuke to city leader Carrie Lam and her handling of violent protests that have divided the Chinese territory. Votes are still being counted Monday morning, but Hong Kong media tallied that the pro-democracy camp had easily won a majority in the vote.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As Iran restores the internet after a weeklong government-imposed shutdown, new videos purport to show the demonstrations over gasoline prices rising and the security-force crackdown that followed. The videos offer only fragments of encounters, but they fill in the larger void left by Iran’s state-controlled television and radio channels. On their airwaves, hard-line officials allege foreign conspiracies and exile groups instigated the unrest that began Nov. 15.
UNDATED (AP) — Newly revealed secret documents show that Communist Party official Zhu Hailun played a key role in planning and executing a campaign that has swept up more than a million Uighurs into detention camps. Zhu is a rare figure in the Han Chinese government because he is fluent in Uighur, the language of the local Turkic Muslim minority.
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