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Xinjiang reeducation camps

A woman's face appears amidst colorful signs protest against China's Uyghar detention centers.

China says Uighur detention centers fight terrorism, rejects UN criticism

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China rejects the suspected mass detention and heavy surveillance of Uighurs, dismissing the allegations as “seriously far away from facts.”

A Chinese police officer talks to men in a street in the city of Kashgar, in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China, on March 24, 2017.

China’s crackdown on Xinjiang’s Uighur Muslims draws international concern

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