detention apparatus remains in placewhile some detainees have been released others have been given long prison sentences or forced to work in factories according to relatives in kazakhstan and turkey satellite imagery shows that some of the camps have closed and others have been expanded or converted into prisons analysts say as chinese government statistics show that xinjiangs incarceration rates have jumped significantly in recent yearsformer residents who have fled xinjiang say their relatives still in the region have cut contact with them out of fear as authorities have targeted those with overseas ties for detentionanayat said those who had left werent able to contact their relatives because they had misdialed their phone numbers or joined uighur independence groups in certain cases he said it was because the relatives had been detained for suspected criminal activitiesthree attendees approached after the news conference declined to give business cards or contact information an official hovering nearby said all followup questions had to be routed through the foreign ministrysorry said gulnar uful an official with xinjiangs bureau of agricultural machinery declining to give her phone number as she hurried out of the room its not convenient for me to give it to you