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Detainee Says China Has Secret Jail in Dubai, Holds Uyghurs

Wu Huan speaks during an interview in a safe house in the Ukraine.

Wu Huan speaks during an interview in a safe house in the Ukraine.

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(AP) -- A young Chinese woman says she was held for eight days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in Dubai along with at least two Uyghurs, in what may be the first evidence that China is operating a so-called “black site” beyond its borders.

The woman, 26-year-old Wu Huan, was on the run to avoid extradition back to China because her fiancé was considered a Chinese dissident. Wu told The Associated Press she was abducted from a hotel in Dubai and detained by Chinese officials at a villa converted into a jail, where she saw or heard two other prisoners, both Uyghurs.