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Chinese ambassador to the UK questions Uighur Muslims footage on BBC show

China’s ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming has questioned leaked footage purportedly showing Uighur Muslims being loaded onto trains in the Xinjiang region - which went viral last year.

Over one million Uighur Muslims and other minorities are said to be detained in internment camps in the autonomous region
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