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Video | China pursues Muslims into shared Kazakhstan trade zone

The mass incarceration of Muslims in China is increasingly a Kazakhstan story.

Feb 22, 2019
Turan Tileubaikyzy Turan Tileubaikyzy's husband attended a funeral in Xinjiang, China two years ago, and has been stuck there ever since.

As part of its crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang, China has sent thousands of ethnic Kazakhs to so-called “reeducation camps.” Many detainees have relatives in Kazakhstan.

Video editing and narration by Maria Mammina

The Khorgos trade zone, straddling the border and shared by Kazakhstan and China, is a desolate place where Kazakhs buy cheap consumer goods and Chinese tourists go to take selfies.

It’s also where some ethnic Kazakhs have been detained by Chinese police. In this video we follow one woman searching for her husband.

Maria Mammina is the digital content editor at Eurasianet.

 

 

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