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Secret footage shows Uighur man’s detention inside Chinese prison

Merdan Ghappar’s texts and videos reveal shocking conditions in Xinjiang internment camps
Merdan Ghappar is a Uighur who has been in Chinese custody in the Xinjiang region since January. Photograph: Handout

Rare footage and text messages secretly sent by a detained Uighur man show chilling evidence of human rights violations by China, as global scrutiny of the situation in Xinjiang grows.

According to and the Globe and Mail, Merdan Ghappar, a successful model on thee-commerce platform Taobao, was detained after having spent over a year in prison on a drugs charge his

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