The documentation, management of data, and influencing of public understanding regarding the severe expansion of a system of prisons and camps in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region since 2017, has over the past years become a contested field. While there can be no doubt that the Chinese government is the largest redactor of information on Xinjiang, Western news outlets as well as Uyghur activist organizations also increasingly choose to filter and redact the information that they make public. Evidences of releases and changes in the camp system are being systematically ignored or underreported and increasing pressure is mounting on researchers to mainly deliver “ideologically sound” facts – from circles loyal to Beijing and Washington, respectively. This chapter seeks to comprehensively draw up these diverse vectors of pressure and the practices of redaction they provoke. Employing redaction as a conceptual tool to address both the destructive and constructive elements of editing, cutting, leaving information out, and consciously selecting frames for comparison and contextualization, we attend to both the political and ideological relevance of such acts. We draw our data from years of fieldwork in the region, on interviews with scholars and activists as well as on the reflection of our experience as scholars of China and Xinjiang.