ALMATY (Reuters) - A court in Kazakhstan on Wednesday freed a former Chinese re-education camp worker who had fled China to reunite with her family in the Central Asian nation, local news agency Tengrinews.kz reported.
The family of Sairagul Sauytbai, an ethnic Kazakh from China's Xinjiang province, has said she could face harsh punishment for speaking out about the camps if the Astana government sent her back to China.
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