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This story took me to Istanbul and Oslo, where I met the whistleblower who is taking a big risk by going public “Yes, it’s dangerous,” he told me. “But someone should speak up and tell the world what is happening (in #Xinjiang).” #uighurs
In Istanbul, I talked to people whose relatives have disappeared into China’s network of re-education camps. One of them is Rozinisa Tohti. After she found out her youngest sister had been sent to a re-education camp, she was heartbroken: “I couldn’t eat and sleep for many days"
The list has no signature or stamp, but we talked to several experts who all agreed it is most likely authentic. We also verified two (1 and 2) camps mentioned in the list. To find out how @bayer_julia @cheriechancy and I verified their location, see @bayer_julia's thread
We asked China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi to comment on the internment of Uighurs on the sidelines of an official visit to Berlin last week – and he was adamant that there were “no concentration camps in Xinjiang”, calling such allegations “fake news”.
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