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Leaked Data Shows China's Uighurs Detained Due to Religion

Associated Press

   BEIJING - For decades, the Uighur imam was a bedrock of his farming
   community in China's far west. On Fridays, he preached Islam as a
   religion of peace. On Sundays, he treated the sick with free herbal
   medicine. In the winter, he bought coal for the poor.

   But as a Chinese government mass detention campaign engulfed Memtimin
   Emer's native Xinjiang region three years ago, the elderly imam was
   swept up and locked away, along with all three of his sons living in
   China.

   Now, a newly revealed database exposes in extraordinary detail the main
   reasons for the detentions of Emer, his three sons, and hundreds of
   others in Karakax County: their religion and their family ties.
   

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