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EXCLUSIVE: China is tracking every movement of its Uighur minority to find reasons to detain them, a leaked document DW obtained from a whistleblower shows.

People have been arrested for growing beards or having too many children: p.dw.com/p/3Xr4C

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The leaked document mentioned several re-education camps in Karakax, a county in Xinjiang. We located and verified two of them using satellite images and information from government documents. @bayer_julia talks about the verification process of one:
@bayer_julia Some relatives of these Uighur detainees have moved abroad. They haven’t been able to get in touch with their families in Karakax for years. @NaomiConrad met one of them in person:
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