People held in controversial training camps in Xinjiang have "graduated" and new students will have the "freedom to come and go", the government of China's far western region said on Monday, slamming foreign estimates of the numbers detained.
The U.S. and some Western nations have issued sharp rebukes after the
United Nations and rights groups estimated between 1 million and 2 million people, mostly ethnic Uighurs, were detained as part of a sweeping anti-terrorism campaign.
Estimates publicized in foreign media were "pure fabrication", Xinjiang's governor, Shohrat Zakir, told reporters in
Beijing, however, without giving details.