Gulag is a rather inflammatory, loaded term. I haven't seen it in context, but if the report used that term, and the authors wanted to be taken very seriously as professional, credible reporters, I hope they explained their intended analogy. Sure, these detention facility pose the risk of impounding people for their beliefs alone (though that has not been proven to my knowledge), and in that sense they could be mini-gulags. But they are not used for forced labor, they are not used to terrorize millions into acquiesence (some of you will disagree), and they have not been used to kill millions of people.

If this a gulag for our times, we live in relatively good times.

There is enough wrong around here to obviate any need for hyperbole.