Hong Kong (CNN) — Rozinsa Mamattohti couldn’t sleep or eat for days after she read

the detailed records the Chinese government had been keeping on her entire family.

She and her relatives, most of whom live in China’s western Xinjiang region, aren’t
dissidents or extremists or well-known. But in a spreadsheet kept by local officials, her
entire family's lives are recorded at length along with their jobs, their religious activity,
their trustworthiness and their level of cooperation with the authorities. And this
spreadsheet could determine if Mamattohti's sister remains behind razor wire in a
government detention center.

Her family’s records, and hundreds of government reports like them, have been leaked
to journalists by a patchwork of exiled Uyghur activists.

The document reveals for the first time the system used by the ruling Chinese
Communist Party to justify the indefinite detention on trivial grounds of not only
Mamattohti’s family but hundreds -- and possibly millions -- of other citizens in heavily
fortified internment centers across Xinjiang.

It is the third major leak of sensitive Chinese government documents in as many

months, and together the information paints an increasingly alarming picture of what
appears to be a strategic campaign by Beijing to strip Muslim-majority Uyghurs of their
cultural and religious identity and suppress behavior considered to be unpatriotic.