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It's not just Tibet that China stands over, Kirsty Needham reports from Xinjiang. He was arrested as he arrived at the school gate, in full view of fellow students and his teachers. Taken away by police, the Uygur teenager remains in jail three months later.
His crime was to look at websites and send an email to an overseas group - daily activities for most teens. But in Xinjiang, the vast region of desert and mountains in China's far west, this constitutes a political crime - no matter how young the emailer - if it suggests contact between the Uygur ethnic minority and external organisations pushing for Xinjiang to become a separate, Islamic, state.
His friends say they do not really know what was in the email. There has been no trial. The school was afraid to get involved - it would only lead to more arrests. Guilt by association is common here, I am told.
"Thieves receive better justice here than people accused of political crimes," says Ali (not his real name), the director of an Islamic network whose work involves assisting unemployed youth.
In the Olympic year, and particularly since the Tibetan monk uprising that reached neighbouring provinces, things have been worse, Ali says.
Any hopes held by some of his young friends of being in Beijing for the Games in August - perhaps to sell Xinjiang's famous dried fruit to tourists - have gone, because, he says, people are being denied permission to travel to other provinces.
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