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Two people who were granted asylum in Kazakhstan after fleeing alleged repression of minority groups in China were assaulted after their arrival in the Central Asian country, a rights group said Friday. The two ethnic Kazakhs said they were victims of massive state repression in China's far western Xinjiang region, where rights groups say over a million Muslim and Turkic-speaking citizens have recently been incarcerated on arbitrary pretexts. The Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said the attacks on Kaisha Akan and Murager Alimuly took place Thursday "in two (cities) simultaneously". The group's report said that Alimuly...
