Kyrgyz men hold portraits of their relatives as they attend a press conference in Bishkek on November 29, 2018. - Citizens of ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan who fear relatives are being held in notorious "re-education camps" in China's Xinjiang region appealed on November 29, 2018 to the country's China-dependent government for help in freeing them. "Study camps" are believed to be numerous extra-judicial detention centres set up in Xinjiang, holding as many as one million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities according to UN estimates. Beijing previously denied the existence of the re-education camps, but now defends them as "vocational education and training centres" where students study Mandarin, brush up on job skills, and pursue hobbies such as sports and folk dance. (Photo by Vyacheslav OSELEDKO / AFP) (Photo credit should read VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP/Getty Images)
