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Leaked data shows China's Uighurs detained due to religion

by Associated Press
| February 17, 2020 9:05 AM

BEIJING (AP) — When a Chinese government mass detention campaign engulfed Memtimin Emer's native Xinjiang region three years ago, the elderly Uighur imam was swept up and locked away, along with three of his sons.

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