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Lu Guang, winner of World Press Photo awards, vanishes in China

Rejected submission by RandomFactor at 2018-12-02 19:18:14 from the prepare to be drained of all individuality and spirit dept.
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Last year he said in an interview

"The reality in China is you never know if you’re going to get into trouble because there are no written rules”

This year, Lu Guang has disappeared [nbcnews.com] from China's remote Xinjiang province.

Lu's work is

known for capturing images of China's environmental damage and the lives of the country's dispossessed

The article infers that Lu has likely disappeared into the same 'reeducation' camps in that province that a million Uighurs have disappeared into.


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