In this paper, the reeducation camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China, are examined through the analysis of the main regulations which govern the camps and the region’s laws on counter-terrorism and extremism. The paper aims to find how the Uyghur Muslim population is systemically discriminated against and othered by the Chinese government and how the government phrases their laws in order to justify their discriminatory actions. Firstly, the socioeconomic conditions and the historical timeline of XUAR were researched, highlighting events and data that have had and still have an impact on the region. Secondly, the establishment of the reeducation camps and the current conditions of detainees in these camps are investigated. Next, the political structure of the Chinese government and the local government of XUAR and the concept behind the implementation of systemic discrimination and othering are studied. Following the aforementioned theoretical research, the policies in each regulation are defined. Subsequent to the definitions are the linguistic and context-based analyses of the policies. These analyses conclude the aim of this paper leading to the following results and conclusions. The results of the analysis provide evidence that the Chinese government’s policies in XUAR are driven by a clear ethnicity bias and a preference for the Han Chinese population. Additionally, they demonstrate the leading party’s, the Chinese Communist Party’s, need for cultural and linguistic assimilation, requiring the entire population to have the party’s core socialist and nationalist beliefs ingrained in them. Furthermore, it exemplifies the nation’s priority towards national security and the terrorism identified in the region being induced by the actions of the government itself. Lastly, the results provide evidence of the discrimination and human rights violations faced by the Uyghur population.