In Turkey, a group of Uyghur mothers are asking for the government’s help to find their children, who were last seen in China’s Xinjiang region. In China, the Uyghurs have faced imprisonment in labor camps and overt state surveillance since 2017. As Durrie Bouscaren reports, dozens of parents who were outside of China when the crackdown began say they have been unable to locate their children in China, and fear they are lost forever.
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