Muslim students in China returned home to find loved ones had vanished into camps for ...
(WorldNews Asia)

Chinese Muslim students returned home for university holidays to find members of their families had been taken away for `unhealthy thoughts`, leaked government documents show. Young people from the minority ethnic Uighur community in the Xinjiang province were told their loved ones were undergoing `training` which is why they were not at home, The New York Times revealed after receiving 400 pages of internal documents. Local officials were instructed to meet students on arrival to explain their relatives were susceptible to Islamic extremism and had been detained `for their own good`, according to the papers. Download the new Indpendent Premium app Sharing the...