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Xinjiang - The Only Crime Is Being Abroad

China says people like Imran's parents are terrorists, that they're just rehabilitating them in re-education centers. But I've seen these places and spoken to people who have been inside. Kuzira thinks she was finally released after her husband, a Kazakh citizen, began campaigning for her freedom with the help of a rights group. On the same trip, I heard similar stories from Kairat Somrakhan, a Muslim Kazakh also from Xinjiang. They put their hood over my head and brought me to a camp. The food was gentle, just a piece of bread and water, sometimes rice or vegetables. But before eating, you had to say long live Xi Jinping. And if

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