From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is The Daily.

Today, under international pressure, China says it has released the vast majority of Muslim

U.S. citizens from detention camps. Why the family of one detainee says that China cannot be trusted.

It's Thursday, August 15th.

Hello.

Hey, Paul, it's Michael. Hey, Michael, how you doing? Good. How are you?

Not too bad. Paul Moser is a Times correspondent based in Shanghai.

So Paul, the last time we talked, you introduced us to a man named Faircat Joddad.

Can you remind us of history? Yeah, so Faircat comes from Western China. He's a

weaker, which is a Muslim ethnic group out there. Faircat actually moved with most of his

family in the early 2000s to the United States to Virginia, but they weren't able to bring

along his mother. She was not given a passport, so she stayed behind out in a Western area of China

called Xinjiang. And in recent years, the Chinese government has cracked down in tightened

security in Xinjiang very intensely. American officials say wegers face pervasive surveillance,

checkpoints entering public places like markets and mosques, identity card checks, and facial scans.

This is partially because there's been quite a bit of violence there and the sort of ethnic

clashes and tensions between the wegers and Chinese in that area. And about 15 months ago,

his mother disappeared into what the Chinese government calls a reeducation camp.

Evidence is growing that up to a million Muslim weekers are being held by Chinese authorities

in so-called reeducation camps. Inside, detainees have said torture and political indoctrination

is routine. Critics say the camps are part of Beijing's attempt to eliminate Islam in China.

She basically was thrown into what is a large network of camps that have pulled in about a million

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