Sairagul Sauytbai, an ethnic Kazakh who fled China last year after working in a so-called re-education camp for ethnic minorities, speaks during an interview in Trelleborg, Sweden, July 3, 2019. REUTERS/Mikael Nilsson
TRELLEBORG, Sweden/ALMATY (Reuters) - Sairagul Sauytbai, an ethnic Kazakh who fled China last year after working in a so-called vocational training centre for ethnic minorities, wanted to tell others about the beatings and torture she said she had seen there.
But in neighbouring Kazakhstan, where she arrived to seek refuge, she was accused of crossing the border illegally, stripped naked, and told by state security agents to keep quiet about Beijing's "de-radicalisation drive", in which it has put hundreds of thousands of people in camps akin to prisons, Sauytbai and her lawyer told Reuters.
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