Egyptian police have reportedly arrested 34 Uighur Chinese students, 12 of whom have been deported, while the remainder are in detention and awaiting deportation, the New York Times reports. The Uighurs are a Sunni Muslim Chinese minority living in a western region of China which has seen ethnic strife. The Chinese government has recently been ordering Uighur students studying abroad to return to China, according to Reuters. Human Rights Watch says the arrests began on 3 July, following a meeting in mid-June between senior security officials from both countries. The rights group puts the number of arrests at 62.

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