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Detained Tourists Sent Home, Others Remain

Twenty foreign tourists were detained in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, after police suspected they were watching “terrorist propaganda videos,” an accusation their family members and friends have vehemently denied. Eleven of them have been allowed to return to their home countries, while nine remained in detention and may face criminal charges. Andrew Jacobs at the New York Times reports: The nine detainees — five South Africans, three Britons and an Indian — were among a group