ALMATY, Kazakhstan — China is allowing more than 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs to abandon their Chinese citizenship and leave the country, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said, in a sign that Beijing may be ...

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A group of activists set fire to a portrait of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the Chinese flag during a demonstration against the continued detention of ethnic Kazakhs in Xinjiang.

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Aynuddin Muradi has been a citizen of Kazakhstan for years, but he now faces deportation to his country of birth, Afghanistan. Kazakh authorities in May stripped the 27-year-old of his citizenship on ...

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A pair of ethnic Kazakhs from China have said they illegally slipped into Kazakhstan earlier this week and that they now wish to apply for asylum. Kaster Musakhan and Murager Alimuly, who are from ...

China is letting more than 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs drop their Chinese citizenship and leave the country, according to Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry. The Associated Press first reported Beijing's decision ...