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Who are the Uyghurs and why is the Chinese government detaining them?

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• The Uyghurs are Turkic-speaking Muslims from the Central Asian region.
• The largest population lives in China’s autonomous Xinjiang region, in the country’s north-west.
• The Uyghurs are one of a number of persecuted Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, including the Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Kyrgyz and Hui.
• Many Uyghur communities also live in countries neighbouring China, such as Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, Australia.