CHURCH: A rescue operation is underway after two cargo ships caught fire off Crimea. Russian officials say it appears to have started during a fuel transfer. At least, 10 crew members are dead, seven are missing. Some jumped into the water to escape the flames. Well, yesterday, we brought to you the story of an ethnic Uyghur from the Xinjiang region of China. A woman named Mihrigul Tursun accused Chinese authorities of detaining her and separating her from her eight-week old triplets back in 2015. She said one of the babies died in a hospital shortly after her release three months later. She alleged that she was detained three times in China, interrogated, and tortured. And that she witnessed deaths of fellow inmates in what she says were mass internment camps in Xinjiang. CNN reached out of the Chinese Foreign Ministry for comment four times prior to first running that piece. On Monday, China's foreign ministry refuted the Uyghur woman's allegations that one of her children died in the hands of the Chinese authorities, and that she witnessed deaths of others at a vocational training center, and that's the government's term for what critics allege, a mass internment camps in Xinjiang. But the woman's story of detention and torture which she also delivered in full to the U.S. congressional executive commission on China back in 2018, fits a growing pattern of evidence emerging about systemic repression of religious and ethnic minority groups carried out by the Chinese government in Xinjiang. We'd like to thank you for watching this special edition of CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church. And I'll be back with our Becky Anderson at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland after this short break. Do stay with us. You're watching CNN.
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