An estimated 1 million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities remain imprisoned in China, four years after the country claimed to have closed a network of “re-education camps” in the country’s far western Xinjiang region. The World’s Durrie Bouscaren spoke to a survivor who served time in the system, and to Uyghur activists who fear a thaw in US-China relations will mean their loved ones could be forgotten.
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