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The photojournalist chinese Lu Guang, awarded by several prestigious awards abroad, he was considered to be too curious in an region that focuses the criticism on the human rights in China? His wife, who lives in the United States, says that he has been gone for over three weeks while he was in the province with a muslim majority in Xinjiang, in the far west of the country, after having been arrested. Several western countries have denounced in recent months a massive program of detention of the Uyghurs and other ethnic groups-muslim, as well as a monitoring system to be liberticidal.

Xu Xiaoli said that her husband had been invited in late October to photography events in the Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi. And it was then delivered alone, as a tourist, in the city of Kashgar, in the south. It was there that she lost track of, on 3 November. She is said to have learned by the wife of the person who had invited Lu Guang, this …