The Financial Times estimated that the number was higher, citing an insider saying that some 4,000 arrests had already taken place by mid July, and that Ürümqi's prisons were so full that newly arrested people were being held in a People's Liberation Army warehouse.
The Financial Times memperkirakan jumlahnya lebih tinggi, dengan mengutip seseorang yang berada di TKP yang berkata bahwa 4.000 orang ditangkap pada pertengahan Juli, dan karena rumah-rumah tahanan Ürümqi telah penuh maka orang-orang yang baru ditangkap ditempatkan di gudang Tentara Pembebasan Rakyat.