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USA TODAY WASHINGTON – About five years ago, a doctor and medical researcher named Imamjan Ibrahim left Boston for Xinjiang, China, to visit his parents. He never returned. Now, friends and acquaintances fear the 35-year-old Ibrahim has been swept up in China's massive detention and imprisonment campaign targeting the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities who populate the country's western region.  "It's been a long four years as I'm searching for my friend," said Maya Mitalipova, a Uyghur-American and biomedical researcher with MIT's Whitehead Institute.   Mitalipova's quest to find ...

Her Uyghur friend disappeared. Now this Boston woman is on a mission to draw attention to China's 'genocide' Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY Replay Video WASHINGTON – About five years ago, a doctor and medical researcher named Imamjan Ibrahim left Boston for Xinjiang, China, to visit his parents. He never returned. Now, friends and acquaintances fear the 35-year-old Ibrahim has been swept up in China's massive detention and imprisonment campaign targeting the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities who populate the country's western region.  "It's been a long four years as I'm ...