Kazakhs despair for relatives missing in Xinjiang

Bikamal Kaken poses with a portrait of her disappeared husband Adilgazy Muqai in Uzynagash. UZYNAGHASH, Kazakhstan: When Bikamal Kaken's husband vanished during a 2017 visit to Xinjiang in northwestern China, she had good reason to believe he would not be returning home to Kazakhstan anytime soon.

Beijing has robustly defended its policies in the Xinjiang region where more than 1 million people – mostly Muslims from Turkic-speaking groups like Uighurs and Kazakhs – have been rounded up on vague extremism and separatism pretexts, rights groups say.READ: China's Xi says 'happiness' in Xinjiang on the rise, will keep teaching 'correct' outlook

They said the company pension that his family subsisted on could be cancelled if he failed to attend a meeting.When news of Muqai's sentence finally emerged three years after his disappearance, it came from an unlikely source – a senior diplomat of the country that had jailed him. The group came under pressure from Kazakh authorities, who have refused it registration, with one of its leaders only beating jail on extremism charges after foreign media coverage and public outcry.

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