China has begun releasing hundreds of ethnic Kazakhs from detention camps in the western region of Xinjiang and placing them under house arrest within China, ahead of anticipated international inspections by the UN.
Kazakhstan’s foreign ministry said this month that it had negotiated for the release of 2,000 Chinese Kazakhs from Xinjiang, where the UN estimates that up to 1m Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities are in political detention.
But Kazakhstan-based activists and family members have told the Financial Times their loved ones remain in limbo in Xinjiang towns, under constant surveillance and unable to return home.
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