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A picture taken on July 13, 2018 shows Sayragul Sauytbay, 41, an ethnic Kazakh Chinese national and former employee of the Chinese state, who is accused of illegally crossing the border between the countries to join her family in Kazakhstan, sits inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at a court in the city of Zharkent. - Secretive "reeducation camps" that allegedly hold hundreds of thousands of people in a Muslim-majority region of western China have become the focus of a court case in Kazakhstan, which is also testing the country's ties with Beijing. (Photo by Ruslan PRYANIKOV / AFP) (Photo credit should read RUSLAN PRYANIKOV/AFP/Getty Images)

A picture taken on July 13, 2018 shows Sayragul Sauytbay, 41, an ethnic Kazakh Chinese national and former employee of the Chinese state, who is accused of illegally crossing the border between the countries to join her family in Kazakhstan, sits inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at a court in the city of Zharkent. - Secretive "reeducation camps" that allegedly hold hundreds of thousands of people in a Muslim-majority region of western China have become the focus of a court case in Kazakhstan, which is also testing the country's ties with Beijing. (Photo by Ruslan PRYANIKOV / AFP)        (Photo credit should read RUSLAN PRYANIKOV/AFP/Getty Images)