China has been accused of holding more than a million Muslims, including ethnic Kyrgyz and Kazakhs, in its so-called re-education camps in Xinjiang Province.
Rights groups in Kazakhstan have been trying to help locate and reunite individuals with family members.
Al Jazeera's Robin Forestier-Walker reports from Almaty.
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