Inside China’s Largest Detention Center
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People stand in a guard tower on the perimeter wall of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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In their
cell, Uyghur prisoners sat quietly in straight lines, looking at a television playing black and white images of Chinese Communist Party history.
They were in one of an estimated 240 cells in just one part of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in far western China.
Reporters from The Associated Press recently visited the center as part of a government-led visit to the far western Xinjiang Uyghur